CCR RESEARCH - 1
❀ How does your product use or challenge conventions, and how does it represent social groups or issues?
✿ My product uses conventions throughout the film opening in order to show several emotion and struggles that we wanted to portray for our characters' emotional state. As it also represents social groups/issues for those who suffer from mental health issues, or have troubling conflicts with themselves or another person. This specific genre of film is known to emphasize themes of power imbalance and emotional dependency, mainly creating love appear more unsettling rather than comforting.
Psychological Romance/Drama Conventions
Films that fall under this genre are bound to carry countless amount of details that many have to notice in order for it to add onto the emotional or physical state of certain characters. Such as the lighting, color palettes, dialogue, shots, and editing techniques that helps support the emotional factors of the characters and settings in the film. They also include voiceovers or insinuate internal thoughts the character(s) are having; if they don't use it through the dialogue they can make it a physical motion that connects back to what they're thinking. Overall, they touch up on themes of obsession, trauma, memory, or loss.
For example, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was our projects biggest inspiration due to the way they were able to portray so many different emotions of different characters; mainly, through the color hues/palettes characters and that the different settings consisted of.
This is our main character
Ana, I created this color palette in order to represent her colors the revolve around her life. Such as our biggest inspiration, there was always one specific color in many scenes that were surrounded by other pale or "
normal" colors. In that film, they are also able to introduce the
mental instability both characters have and as the
romance they once had for each others (along with following events) are able to worsen their relationship. The usage of
soft,
lightly toned music is also strong throughout the film which adds to the
tone they're trying to create.
Ana has been known to be a
saddening character as she seeks more into academics rather than
platonic or
romantic love with the important people around her life. Throughout our film opening, you're able to recognize the fact that
Ana once was, someone who was able to have fun and balance several things at once. The significance of
blue throughout our film is meant to project the way
Ana's life is since we're not able to show too much of how her daily life is.
Representation of Social Groups/Issues
This genre expresses gender dynamics, power in relationships, mental health, toxic attachment, class differences, and emotional repression. Something that makes me proud about the production of
Tunnels is that it's able to emphasize the way countless amount of young kids in school create a massive image and expectations for themselves to the point it becomes
harmful. Such as most films follow through with stereotypes, an example would be the way woman are overly
emotional and in comparison, men are emotionally distant. In
Tunnels, we create this affect by clearly showing how much of a complex character
Ana is. Considering her mental health, physical state, and her connections towards people who are supposed to be her
support system. As we see in our film, she is trying to push away those who help her such as
Mrs. Larsson who is clearly trying to make her life slightly better by talking about the way she feels. When she hopes that
Ana will one day at least pretend as if she wants to be there and better her mental health, she only manages to push away. A visual metaphor that are mainly used in these types of films are mirrors, reflections, and shadows. For
Ana Haynes, we decided to use a mirror to give off a sense of her trying to reflect on her actions and overall state of mind, along with
blue to accompany that. On the right, I created a photo of
Mrs. Larsson and
Ana Haynes with a supporting
orange/
yellow tone to bring try and show that
Mrs. Larsson isn't another person in Ana's life that's trying to bring her down, but is truly willing to support her throughout her experiences. This specific color creates a comfortable, bonding moment with Ana in the picture, it's clear Ana isn't willing to let her self get the help it needs.
Another common factor in many psychological romance/dramas is that most of the time there is someone who is important to a character that passes away. This is a factor that adds up to the mental instability many character that fall under this genre have. In Tunnels, we decided to mention an Amelia during the therapist which is Ana's sister who passed away during a tragic car accident; which creates an understanding to as of why Ana becomes annoyed, angry, and uncomfortable when Mrs. Larsson attempts to make Ana realize how much Amelia's death has really affected her mental and physical state.
Sources:
- IMDb user list: ls002116143 (n.d.).
IMDb.
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