ISSARAK

Rationale
Please write a paragraph in response to each prompt.

Explain your contribution to the project.

For this certain english film summitave, our group decided to create a film plot
based around this theme of “forbidden love”, and “star crossed lovers”, in which is a
theme based upon a relationship between two different characters that is predicted
to not exist or is accepted to not happen. Our story is about the relationship
between two different male characters that are both homesexual, however their
environment and their families argue against their relationship and act against the
favor of the relationship ever happening. My part in the project in terms of creating
the storyboard of the film is creating the ending part of our film where our two
homesexual male characters in the meet up with each other again after realizing
that they cannot live together with their families not agreeing with their homesexual
relationship. Therefore they decide to escape together to another country or place
away from their families so that that can continue to be in the relationship.

Explain how you have attempted to explore a timeless theme or conflict and its
connection to the play and or film.

Our main theme that is connected with the play Romeo and Juliet is the theme and
idea of “forbidden love” where the relationship between two characters is destined
to not work out and fail due to the environment in the characters that act against
their relationship as a whole. The way that this theme and idea of forbidden love is
portrayed in Romeo and Juliet is through the relationship between Romeo and
Juliet. The reason why the relationship between Romeo and Juliet is considered a
“forbidden love” or why both Romeo and Juliet are referred to as “star crossed
lovers” is that both Romeo and Juliet are members of rival families, where Romeo is
a member of the Montague family and Juliet is a member of the Capulet family. ​The
blood-hated feud between Montague and the Capulets would make anyone in their
bloodline seem entitled to having to hate anyone from the other family, and thus
the fact that Romeo a Montague, falls in love with Juliet a member of the Capulets
which he supposedly has to willingly hate, shows how their relationship would not
work given the circumstances that both parties in relationship between one another.

The idea of forbidden love also appears in our story as well, where the theme of
forbidden love is shown through the relationship between the two homesexual male
characters. This is as in our society today, gay and homesexual love and same-sex
marriage is still not as widely accepted throughout the world with most religions
going against the idea of a male having the ability to be able to marry another
person of the same sex, and a large amount of social stigma going against the idea
of even being in a romantic relationship of someone of the same sex. This
relationship between two characters of the same sex showcases the idea of
forbidden love in our society today, as the strong amount of social beliefs and
religious ideology going against gay relationships in our world today make the
relationship between two of our homesexual characters as difficult to work out and
happen as well as with the relationship between Romeo and Juliet from rival
families.
Explain your use of film techniques and how you might have expanded on these
techniques if you had greater technical expertise.
For our play, the main sort of film techniques that I would use to employ into our
play in order to further create this theme of forbidden love and star cross’d lovers
would through the variety of different lighting and camera shots. The use of lighting
techniques can be widely used throughout a film in order to create a certain
atmosphere in a scene that would allow the audience to feel a certain way to that
scene. For example, the use of very dark lighting creates this very gloomy and
scary atmosphere due to the fact that the dark lighting creates this loss of vision for
the audience which would in turn allow the audience to feel this sense of uncertainty
and darkness in the scene, and would in turn allow the scene to have more of this
very dark and scary theme and atmosphere towards the audience.

In our play, I will plan to use different changes of lighting throughout the different
scenes for each scene to have a different emotional atmosphere and response, as
each scene has a uniquely different atmosphere. In the first scene,high-key lighting
will mainly be used throughout the scene as the high-key lighting creates this very
cheerful and pleasant atmosphere as the heightened-bright colors would create a
near opposite effect to low-key lighting(audience experience an increase in vision
which allows the scene to be more pleasant). This lighting is used in this scene as
this is where our main characters first meet each other and begin to develop
emotional feelings for one another, and the bright key lighting would create this
bright and cheerful atmosphere to allow this part of the story where the characters
experience joy from falling in love with each other to feel more happier and
pleasant for the audience. In the final two scenes we would use low-key lighting
instead, where as mentioned before this type of lighting creates this very dark and
gloomy atmosphere due to loss of vision in the scene making the audience more
uncomfortable. In this latter half of the story, the low key lighting helps create this
dark and sad atmosphere around the relationship between our two male characters
begins to fall apart and end and would emphasize the sense of how our characters
cannot experience love and joy for each other as the outside forces outside their
relationship act against them. Both the low and high key lighting showcases the
uphills and struggles of the character’s “forbidden love” relationship, from the
characters falling love for the first time despite the outside forces acting against
their relationship, but then the struggles of trying to continue the relationship due
to their environment.

In terms of camera shots and techniques, the main types of camera shots and
techniques that I would use to employ in this theme forbidden love would mainly be
the use a variety medium shots and long shots. I would mainly use medium shots in
this play is in order to allow the play to feel more realistic, as this relationship is
mostly based in the context of our modern society today, as homesexual love is still
highly stigmatized against. Longshots are also mainly used due to the fact that the
longshots could help emphasize the sort of environment our characters are in that
would go against our relationship. For example in the first scene, our character first
meet each other at the Taj Mahal, which is in India a country that religiously mostly
goes highly against homesexual love and relationship, in which could further
emphasize how this idea of homesexual and gay love acts as this form of “forbidden
love” in our modern society today.