portfolio project week 3 (2/21-2/27) post #3

This Week's Research

Suicide:

My intentions while making this film opening are to depict a realistic reaction to the loss of a loved one. My #1 rule during the making of this specific project is to be respectful, my intention is never to insult anyone. Onto the research, my research in terms of how to portray suicide in film led me to the same conclusion: don't be rude. National Recommendations for depicting suicide recommends the following:

Since the film opening is 2 minutes, I will only be able to include that help is available (Patti) and other characters with suicidal thoughts (the unnamed patient). If I had more time, I would definitely include all of the recommendations.

Drowning:

The drowning itself will not be shown, so my research focused on what a body looks like after drowning so the costume design could be fitted to that. Decomposition changes in bodies recovered from water says that the most noticeable physical changes are the wrinkling of hands and feet, goose flesh, vascular marbling, dark discoloration, bloating, and putrefaction. However, I will only be able to do wrinkling, (maybe) marbling, and discoloration as we don't have access to body suits or clay. I would include the pictures I saw but that is disgusting so I think that's it for today's research. Examples of makeup will be included in a post later on.

Fight Club:

Spoilers ahead so if you haven't watched Fight Club .. sorry. 23 years too late. Anyways, in Fight Club there are two main characters (arguably 3 but that's not the point): the Narrator (Edward Norton), or Jack, and Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). Tyler Durden is Jack's alternate personality but that is not revealed until the end because it's the plot twist, so Tyler is presented as a whole other person throughout the movie. He is introduced 2/3rds into the movie, but beforehand there are flashes of him seen throughout the first third of the movie. This is a small piece of the incredible foreshadowing but important to develop the slow development of Tyler overpowering Jack. 

example 1: tyler behind Bob
(another character)

example 2: tyler behind a doctor

I'm thinking of using this in relation to Meredith taking over Patti. Differences are that Meredith is not an alternate personality rather than a memory, but the idea that she is 'taking over' Patti's brain like Tyler took over Jack's is there.

Citations:

Alliance, A. (2022). National Recommendations for depicting suicide. National Recommendations for Depicting Suicide. Retrieved February 26, 2022, from https://theactionalliance.org/messaging/entertainment-messaging/national-recommendations

Caruso, J. L. (2016, March). Decomposition changes in bodies recovered from water. Academic forensic pathology. Retrieved February 27, 2022, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6474513/

Breeding, J. (2018, September 26). Little details that should've made the twist in 'fight club' obvious. Ranker. Retrieved February 26, 2022, from https://www.ranker.com/list/foreshadowing-and-clues-in-fight-club/jordan-breeding