In My Head

Riding behind my protagonist along a rollercoaster of emotions, my audience will witness the power of perspective and the light in which we see the events of the world around us. Simultaneously, my audience will enter the mind of my protagonist and observe the power and limitless nature of her imagination, intended to evoke realisation and awareness about how our minds distort and adjust our perceptions of reality accordioning to our emotions, often straying from truth and actuality that is presented and ignored before us.

Moreover, through utilising the experimental nature of Lev Kuleshov’s so called ‘effect,’ my film is structured as a tonal montage that alternates between typically blank expressions of my protagonist’s face, and her assumed memories/thoughts, providing context to her character that would otherwise not have been discerned without the crosscuts. The importance of this effect is to signify to the audience that it is often not so easy to tell how someone is feeling/what they are thinking, and while someone might appear fine, they may secretly be being haunted by dangerous and intrusive thoughts that skew their perceptions of reality, and are ultimately not what they appear to be on the surface. This is such an important message that I wish to convey to my audience, as we never truly know what someone might be going through behind their ‘okay’ seeming façade.