Research and Development of Idea
For the juxtaposition of the two states - reality and imagination - I needed a very subtle but dramatic edit similar to the edit used by Daniel Boyle in "Trainspotting" (1996) where Mark Renton jumps over a wall into a drug den leaving his normal life behind and entering a nightmare existence. Also, the following scene where Renton goes into a coma I have tried to replicate in my scene where my character becomes insane as I felt this had the same connotations as Boyle's scene. Renton and my character are both in a state where they are in their own private worlds with the real world revolving around them. In my version, I have tried to create a differentiation between the two worlds - one being saturated in its colours and one de-saturated. This helps to connote different states of mind - depression, isolation and insanity in turn.
"Trainspotting" is a good example of a film that focusses on a main character and how his actions affect other people and his own state of mind through insanity and final rehabilitation after drug abuse.