Scene Inspirations

This scene from the film " The Fault in Our Stars" shows a perfect example of something we trying to do in our film. In the 2nd half of the film, we want Elena to read the note that her mom left behind for her to read. 

Just like shown in this clip, Hazel discovers the email that Gus sent to one of her favorite authors, stating how he needs help writing her eulogy because he isn't a good write. There is a voiceover of him reading the letter. He talks about how much he loves, cares, and appreciated Hazel. He also brings up the time they use to spend together. And at these particular moments, there are flashbacks being shown of them spending time together. While Hazel reads the letter, the camera also cuts back to Hazel reading to capture her reactions and emotions. It emphasizes on the heaviness of sadness in the scene, it shows that what she is reading truly affects her and makes her feel some type of way. Also, while the scene is happening there is a emotional song playing. It's called "All I want" by Kodaline. The song portrays heavy and sentimental emotions because it has lyrics like "I wish I could hear you knocking at my door," "when you said your last goodbye, I died in a little inside," and etc. The song also has these very sad guitar chords that just add onto the heaviness of the scene. 

This is all relevant because, this is exactly how I want the 2nd half of the film to go. We want her to read the letter, with the voiceover of Valentina reading. We want to incorporate a song that portrays sad and sentimental emotions. This adds more emotions to the scene drawing audiences. We also want the flashbacks appearing while the note being read to show Elena and Valentina relationship. We don't really go back to the past to show how their relationship is, so this is the importance of having flashbacks, so it makes sense to the audiences. So, people to understand the kind of relationship they had and how special it was.