Design Practice 3: Assignment 3: DePict: Inspiration and Brainstorming: Part One

The main central focus for my 90 second film is going to revolve around a letter, the working title is 'The Letter' The piece revolves around the central themes of questing reality, characters mentality, time and general mystery.
Although my differing treatments alter the plot of the film slightly, the general idea is that their is character who receives an mysterious letter, the content of the letter questions the characters reality and the audience is left to decipher  the outcome. 

I have drawn influence from various sources, mainly other existing film. Notable influence include aspects from the film Memento (2000), the idea that a character cannot recall writing a letter to himself and posing for a photo struck me as particularly interesting.



Other influence comes from the film Fight Club (1999) as it deals with distorted reality's and questions the mental stability of the main character throughout, the idea that we see events through the blurred lens of a mental illness and that 'the truth' is somehow revealed to the audience at the climax is a big influence.
Another Small influence Come from The letter in Back to The Future, the one titled 'do not open until 1985', this is an interesting notion to explore, a mysterious letter through time.

Finally the premise of time repeating, a sequence of events occurring over and over has been explored, I felt this could be a thought provoking idea in my piece, the letter is being sent continuously, the event somehow restarts itself, leaving the audience wondering what came first and why it's happening,
the chicken and the egg scenario.  It relates heavily to the plot that surround GroundHog Day (1993)




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