What the differences depression can cause in social situations as well as their effect on different people. The effect depression has on a social life and how other people can mistake their suffering with something to stigmatize. The effects of depression change a person’s mannerisms and their ability to make friends or deal with intricate social situations. We will have to convey it from a socially acceptable and high quality this is not to offend the people in question as to say it is not their fault but also not the other party’s fault. We will have to use a range of filming techniques like framing and colour correction to amplify the effect on the watcher we can also help the guess what the person is feeling. We may use contrapuntal sound to offset some scenes but for the most part we will try to covey our message subliminally. The visual style is going to be more grimy and brutal so I want a dark more connotative background to exemplify the mood around the certain character perspective which will change to reflect how others have made them feel.
I want to use several visual styles and camera techniques like, colour correction, symbolism, Mise en scene, and others to make my work more effective. I will use colour correction to make characters’ feelings known to the audience, and empathise with the character. This is to make the character seem less like the stigmatized disorder and more like a victim making depression seem like a separate being on the side of the general public antagonising the viewer. I want to make them seem like they are doing a bad thing when stigmatizing someone even unknowingly. I also want to use Mise en scene with symbolism to add on to the depth of the story. Using Mise en scene I will add element and references like black dogs and eyes to have the audience make connections between different media and pop culture. I want my film to make the viewer think about their actions whether they place themselves as an antagonist or a victim because I will have no protagonist but it will change perspective on how we act. I would like to achieve a point where the visual style is clear and the effect of one’s action reflects upon themselves far less that it does an another. how you feel may change because of another’s actions, I would like to show those actions in a more theoretical sense to what rejection and denial can make a person feel.
In the short film ED, it uses lighting techniques and white balance to create a sense of what is past and what is present. The film uses colour to indicate whether it is a happy memory or his life currently this makes it easy to track The story as it is non-linear. It also changes how the character looks this makes an effect that he has changed. I would like to use this effect but not harshly or for the entire duration of the film. There are good film techniques in this film that I would like to use but it also has parallels to my story. There is no actual speech exemplifying what I am going to do in my story. I will have speech but none that will explicitly state his depression like ED I will use visual messages to make my point. The filming techniques and uses of Mise en scene is used effectively and I would also like to use it to this extent having objects around the scene that may connotate or add to the story. The iconology is something I also want to show. Often the face is not enough you need a visual example of emotional pain. I want to show the symbolism with the realism the perspective will show not just what that person sees but what they feel.
“Women have a higher depression rate but men have a higher suicide rate”
The gender of the person will affect the story so it is accurate. The gender difference in suicides is around double but the difference in gender on having depression is more a third more in females. The signs of depression are more present in females which make it easier for people to see and psychiatrists to diagnose. The gender of the person with depression can make it harder to detect the symptoms and make it harder to detect. We can apply this to the audience while we use things women can relate to, we can also show the aspects men might relate to more. The statistics show it would be easier for a woman to relate to the feeling of depression whereas men don’t show their emotions and relate to a more desensitised show of what they are going through. The inverse is also true if we want to make an impact on the audience the examples should be the opposite of what they relate to, but the film should be more of a sad theme getting the person to relate to the character and use that to make their feelings more effective. This this is not always true for each gender but generally the same amount of people are emotional to emotionally closed off. My target audience also has a fifty fifty split so generally the two personality types will be evened out with the equality of the two genders (that have been answered in my questionnaire).
“9/10 of people who have had mental disorders suffer sigma”
This means our character will probably will have a stigma so to most people won’t talk to them or talk about them. The signs of depression can be confused with antisocial behaviour and other signs may seem like rudeness. This almost guarantees a stigma worsening the depression and as such the symptoms. The people surrounding the affected person are not only the cure for the illness but also the cause. The people surrounding a mentally vulnerable person have the power to cure but often they don’t know better so they antagonise them. This might make an appeal to a more disgruntled or emotionally vulnerable crowd who might want to relate to something. The stigma surrounding a lot of disorders and illnesses is not there because it is deserved and as such so those effected so it will be easier for them to relate to certain situations. A stigma could be represented in an abstract sequence as a stigmata 2 pieces of wood put into the hands as a symbol of how they feel. The iconology behind a stigma is never shown I want to show how it feels emotionally and physically. The symbolism behind it because no one sees how much it hurts the pain of having it. They are too busy not wanting one, that they don’t see the pain is worse because that the person can’t be a part of the thing they are stigmatized against. I want to portray the stigma using symbolism Mise en scene or other tactics to show the characters restrictions.
“Men show fewer symptoms and seek treatment less often”
We can’t use someone who will show a lot of signs and we can’t put certain elements into the story it could be a reveal near the end. The idea of the signs of depression isn’t the same for everyone so I would like the viewer to watch it over and try to identify the signs, rather than then seeing it is clear and obvious when it is not. The identifiers for depression are not clear and I will have to try my best to exemplify the qualities of one person with depression. We have to exemplify the qualities of someone with depression like, lethargy, anger, recklessness, weight fluctuations these are hard to exemplify because not all symptoms present themselves as well as them being presented outwardly. This we will have to directly convey showing most people don’t want you to see they need help, and it is due to several reasons but first and foremost is the stigma, and the effect on their current life sometimes rapidly diminishing its quality.
The differences in the specific ranges of depression will affect the script drastically so we need to know what who and why we are casting specific people. We will have to use the research we have gained to properly and effectively. The research we have done implies that depression is very hard to identify. This is because of the person in question has been socially chastised because of the symptoms, but because of this their behaviour is explainable so society has made the symptoms harder to detect, removing obligation and opportunity’s to go out. Which makes lethargy seem normal. I need to use caution in order not to miscommunicate my message. I will need to use Mise en scene to show more hypothetical staples of depression. I want to use symbolism to exemplify victimisation and ridicule in a sympathetic way.
Sources:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00406-002-0381-6
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