STYLE
Below is my style page to represent the type of imagery I hope to achieve in my film Sapiens. The images include a lot of dark dull colours which symbolise the bleak reality of human behaviour and slavery. I want to include many shallow focus shots to make it visually appealing and to represent the blurred truth behind dairy farms. I will use wide shots to establish the scenes and close up to add detail to the narrative. A lot of these images show the meaning of my film through photography.
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These last shots are more about the photography of the themes in my film. The girl with the birdcage on her head and birds on the outside shows the role reversal element to my film. What if we were treated how we treat them? The images of the refugee camps, concentration camps and racism against black people shows that history keeps repeating itself, we look back at these horrific events and can't believe that happened. However that is what is still going on today, it may not be Jews or black people being kept in cages and chains, but animals and vulnerable people from other cultures. In the future when animal cruelty becomes fully illegal, we will be the ones telling our grand children what happened and how animals and people from different cultures where treated and they will be equally as shocked as we where.
I like the shots above as the locations are similar to what I would like to use. I also really like the framing on some of theses shots as they represent isolation and mystery by the use of long shots with never ending scenery, the low angles of the barn shows an almost horror connotation and makes the audience question what horror is happening in that barn.
I love the above shallow depth of focus shots, the use of it on the fence shots really emphasise the entrapment theme. Even though I am not having any dogs in my film, I feel the images show that bond that animals should have with humans and reflect that we share the planet with them, we don't own it and that even a child can see that. I also like the colouring of the black dog shot, the blue tint makes it feel cold and the framing and over all look is cinematic. The blurred out background really makes you focus on the dogs face and emotions.
In these shots I like the framing and I am going to use them as inspiration when creating my storyboard and short list. Even though the framings are all different they are all aesthetically pleasing and cinematic.