500 days of Summer interesting film ideas relating to readings

500 days of Summer was a really interestingly edited film, and a great deal of thought went into Symbolism and cinematography that would often go unnoticed.

An example of this is its use of colour. As noticed by Reddit user bonkeyfonkey,

We notice that the main character Tom’s character and often his world is very brown, as if to symbolise a different season.

Whereas Summer is seen as being very blue.

We also find that when Tom begins a relationship with Summer, the world and character surrounding Tom begin to have a blue colour scheme as well

Other than the blatant colour symbolism, the cinematography in the film I found to be really interesting and captivating. For example the dancing scene as shown above really captures the emotions being conveyed.

As Tony Zhou communicated in the “How does an Editor think and feel” video many scenes expressed the emotion the characters were feeling predominantly through their eyes, like the shot of Summer above.

I quite liked one of the simple techniques that Eric Steelberg used to show Toms expectation of meeting Summer again compared to the reality, as he simply filmed each and put them side by side, as shown below.

This techniques relates to the text studied “Blood in the Gutter” by Scott McCloud as well, because it works similar to that of a comic strip using the Scene to Scene technique, transporting the idea of these two different realities, and putting them side by side.