Finding inspiration is as important to me as finding an idea. There are some moments in life where you just see a location or a person walk past in the street and you are left with just this feeling of awe and these really stick with me. A recent inspiring moment for me took place at the cinema I always go to. As I waited outside the theatre, I noticed this man, probably in his 50s, sitting on the seat right opposite the doors of the cinema. He stared straight ahead as if nothing could distract him from those doors. He looked very clean. He looked as if he’d come straight from work, even though he was missing a coat jacket and a brief case. He sat there with a small popcorn in one hand, and a large drink in the other, in which he would occasionally sip from. I sat watching him for a few minutes, but not once did he break his stare and look over in my direction. He seemed really out of place to me, sitting there on his own, with the novelty cinema carpet, and the stale popcorn left at his feet from someone previous.

This visual was really strong to me. Sort of like he was in a different world to his usual one. This got me thinking on how I could interpret this into some of the discussions we’ve had in class about film worlds. I think we lightly touched on the topic of a character being brought into an unfamiliar world and this is how I see the scene that happened in front of me at the cinema. This came at a really great time for me, because I was lacking motivation and inspiration for my own project and I now have something I’m interested in looking further into. This semester though I have been drawn to more unusual and surreal worlds such as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and I think I could try and create a surreal world for this man to enter in a film.