Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope
I have come to a conclusion that the voice over I’ll be using is my own voice reading a poem by Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard. It is an amazing poem in itself, and the fact that it talks about happiness and life, it is just the right one to use with my project and also it fits my aim of the film perfectly. And of course, I got an inspiration from my all time favourite movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. My favourite line, among all the great lines, is
How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!The world forgetting, by the world forgot.Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d;
Then after recording myself reading it, I will put some background music or sound from the laundromat such as the laundry, the car, people talking in the back, but that will be after I finished the reading. I can feel that this will be one of my best work in a year of studying here. It’s been such a journey. I have learnt about colour grading, how it presents different emotions, and how so much more you can do in filmmaking. I also found that a lot of people don’t care much about colour as they are more likely to care about white balance, the right exposure, great cameras, composition etc. It has been a great investigation to know better about colours in filmmaking and how it can also create the differences in it.
With all my hopes. this project I am working on will be inspiring and interesting for other people as it is for me. As I said earlier that I am more interested in design that filmmaking, the fact that I can actually combine them all together to create such a piece of work is fantastic.
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