REQUIEM FOR A DREAM DIR. DARREN ARONOFSKY
The first thing I have decided is to consume as much content, be it films, TV series, music videos, articles, books, based on drug addiction since it is a sensitive topic and I do not want to portray it inaccurately. Today I watched the film “Requiem for a dream”.
A brilliant masterpiece by director Darren Aronofsky. It tells parallel stories of four characters, all related with each other. The main protagonist is Harry Goldfarb, played by Jared Leto, and the other characters are linked to him. His friend, Tyrone(Marlone Wayans), his girlfriend, Marion(Jennifer Connelly), his mother, Sara Goldfarb(Ellen Burstyn). All these characters are indulged in drug addiction, be it intentionally or unknowingly, and as their stage of addiction keeps progressing, so do their symptoms and the things they do to keep sustaining that addiction.
Darren Aronofsky has used some techniques to tell his story that I would really like to use in my music video. One of them is montage-based editing, which he uses to show a character consuming a certain drug. It is a sequence of fast cuts. I, as of yet, do not know where exactly I would use this editing style in my video. I will decide that later, but I do want to use it for sure.
Another technique of Aronofsky’s that I really liked was the use of a camera rig which attaches to the body. The camera is pointed directly at one of the actors, so close that we feel nose-to-nose with them. As they walk and move, the camera remains stabilized anf focused on their face, while the background shifts. I researched on it and found out it’s called a “snorricam”. I will definitely use this rig. I might rent it or ask around if any of my peers has one and would borrow it from them.These are the scenes from the movie with the snorricam used. I found out that this rig is used in a lot of movies that I have even seen before but never noticed, such as the Hangover and Mean Streets.
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