20/03/19

I’ve thought more on the idea of using perspective to change the viewers opinion and how I can adopt that to the film. By playing around with the sequence of the scenes, I’ve found there’s a way of showing two narratives throughout.

 In the linear narrative, the last scene would be the perpetrator leaving the party with his friends, having some banter. One of them turns to him asking how it went upstairs with Lucy. He replies sounding hopeful, “It went really well” then looks into camera slightly. By having this at the end, the audience is aware of everything he’s done and the look at the camera is narcissistic and smug. They hate him.

When the scene is at the very beginning, it can be misread as someone who’s just got lucky upstairs with a girl.

After this we’d see the films original opening scene of Lucy in the bathroom. In the linear narrative, this shows Lucy nervously getting ready in the bathroom. She’s nervous about socialising and being in front of people. But by having it come straight after the initial end scene and with the mention of Dan, the perpetrator, arriving anyway, the audience hopefully thinks she’s getting ready to see him.

When I started cutting sections of the film up more and changing the order they went in, I realised there was potential to misdirect the audience for the first half. In the second half we’d see the effects of the misdirect and finally ending on a scene of Lucy asking for her friends help and her friend taking no interest.

I see the first half as his truth. The order he would want things to go in. The second is her truth. The brutal reality of it all. The last scene almost acts as the audience’s reality. Now realising the situation, there’s nothing that can be done to help her. It’s too late. The change of perspective, hopefully changing opinion.