Depression can last, what feels like, eternity. Depression can make you feel hopeless. Depression can make you feel inadequate. Depression can make you draw away from those who care about you. Depression can make you draw away from yourself. If you are depressed or suicidal, remember your needs, wishes and feelings, remember that you are worthy of a happy and healthy life. Getting through depression will be hard, but keep fighting for yourself, keep fighting for your life- the life you deserve. In the making of this film, I chose to have two dancers as visual aids; a male and a female dancer to personify my letter to depression- as the letter is being spoken out, the audience may hear as well as see the breaking of the bond between an individual
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It is but until the near end where, in my letter to depression, I narrate the climax and turning point. From sadness I found strength and correspondingly, the man is finally able to break free from her clutches, depressions clutches, and take his first steps into a new journey. The emotion on each of the dancers face allowed for a stronger connection with the viewers as they saw the progression pain and suffering to strength and freedom of the male as well as heard it from the narrations of my letter to …show more content…
The black and white filming allows the audience to be set into a serious tone to strengthen the gravity of the claim being made. As black may portray elegance and white to be purity; the mixture of these to resulting in a gray scale changes that completely. Where the purity is tainted and the elegance disordered- gray is the dull, dirty, and dingy by-product. To one who is depressed, everything seems to be in gray-scale, the world does not seem as colorful, the stars not as bright- and you seem to feel underground, just as the setting is in a subway station. The addition of captions to intensify certain words and phrases, such as “teased”, “ugly”, “wouldn’t I be happier dead?”, and “I won’t give up”, adds stress to the particular phrases. The use of gray-scale and captions allows further visual aid in highlighting the essential aspects, making understanding, retaining and digesting the claim easier, rather than listening or seeing
It is but until the near end where, in my letter to depression, I narrate the climax and turning point. From sadness I found strength and correspondingly, the man is finally able to break free from her clutches, depressions clutches, and take his first steps into a new journey. The emotion on each of the dancers face allowed for a stronger connection with the viewers as they saw the progression pain and suffering to strength and freedom of the male as well as heard it from the narrations of my letter to …show more content…
The black and white filming allows the audience to be set into a serious tone to strengthen the gravity of the claim being made. As black may portray elegance and white to be purity; the mixture of these to resulting in a gray scale changes that completely. Where the purity is tainted and the elegance disordered- gray is the dull, dirty, and dingy by-product. To one who is depressed, everything seems to be in gray-scale, the world does not seem as colorful, the stars not as bright- and you seem to feel underground, just as the setting is in a subway station. The addition of captions to intensify certain words and phrases, such as “teased”, “ugly”, “wouldn’t I be happier dead?”, and “I won’t give up”, adds stress to the particular phrases. The use of gray-scale and captions allows further visual aid in highlighting the essential aspects, making understanding, retaining and digesting the claim easier, rather than listening or seeing