Summer Project: Final Major Project Themes
PRESENTATION SCRIPT:
- START slide: beating heart
The area I want to focus on is how to capture a powerfully emotional moment!
I want to boil down to the beating heart of the audiences emotional durability.
- Next slide: 365 days
To make them react from seeing something that connects with their personal experiences.
- Next slide: Spoilers
BEWARE there may be spoilers in my presentation so stop me if you do not want to know about the events in the movie.
- Next slide: gravity
Themes that have intrigued me are:
- PTSD, aftereffect of trauma.
- Having a determination to survive in extreme circumstances
- Morality and making difficult decisions
- Next slide: PTSD
My first theme is PTSD,
- Next slide: shellshock
or also known as shellshock…
- Next slide: Brothers
You may immediately think of military personnel like in the movie brothers but there are actually 13x more civilian cases.
Symptoms can be:
- Night mares
- Flashbacks
- And general changes of mood.
Which can be seen in the movie Catching Fire
- Next slide: Catching Fire
Possible causes for PTSD are:
- Road accidents
- Violent personal assaults
- Serious health problems
- Military experiences
- Child birth experiences
Other examples.
- Next slide: Survival theme
My next theme is survival:
Research into this theme concluded that:
Pain and fear are key integral parts to the situation that determines your survival.
It is thought that if the potential to survive is low enough then the individual will perform self-destructive behaviour.
Examples within movies of individuals with a determination of survive:
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The 33: How long would you survive on rations before going crazy. Would you rather end your life there and then or wait for either death or an unlikely rescue?
- Next slide: DECISIONS
My last theme is about making hard decisions or morality therefore I must mention ‘The Trolley Dilemma’ .
- Next slide: train scenario
This is a theoretical scenario where an oncoming train is about to hit 5 people but you can to choose whether to divert the train from that track but this will kill one person.
Through studies questions come up such as:
Are you committing an act of murder by deciding that the one life must die or are you doing the same by doing nothing?
Some conclusions were made such as:
- how people usually make highly self-serving choices.
- Moral choices are highly influenced by tangible rewards and consequences.
Some examples of having to make difficult decisions, possibly in a moral scenario are such as:
- Next slide: Eagle Eye
In this movie the character chose to perform an action that would draw attention to himself in order to stop a bomb from going off, but this will also get himself killed.
- Next slide: Chronicle
What choice would you make if you suddenly had superpowers that allowed you to get money for the medicine your mother needed to stay alive but through criminal actions?
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Would you torture a presumed guilty young man to find information about your missing daughter? Like in prisoners.
Or drown your dying father in order to make his death quicker like in sanctum.
Or cut the rope with your father on the other end to save yourself and your sister like in vertical limit.
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Could you choose you gets to live, them being strangers or loved ones?
I have been working on presenting the question with juxtaposition in some way.
These I thought would be good as a dream sequence during the traumatic experience and then contrast a dream sequence of the traumatic experience in the mundane life afterwards.