The use of Childhood Images

Through the editing process it has become apparent that theme of childhood and reminiscence has come up a lot in the footage we have got, we want to incorporate this into the film as we feel it is a big aspect of why Janaan loves film and how she tackles her amnesia. An idea which we had was to use footage from her childhood but this is unfortunately unable to happen because of timing issues and the location of footage. Moving forward we have decided to use some pictures instead, we feel this will get the message across and hopefully tie into our main themes. These are the images we are thinking of using and why we are considering them.

This first picture is one of the strongest ones we have it Janaan (and I) at the cinema, this visually connects her childhood to film And displays something which the audience can relate to as well as emotionally attached himself to as she is not only seen as grown-up she is also seen as vulnerable,

This image is more of a queue for when Janaan discusses her childhood, again this is more of a visual to help guide the audience and show them her childhood rather than a metaphorical image,

This last image is one in which we all find very strong and striking. The colours together make image seem a little blurred and dreamlike, it also shows John looking to camera by herself represents strength within childhood and also because of the aesthetic links to the theme of derealisation and depersonalisation. 

Overall I think using these images will prove to useful however we want to be careful not to shoehorn these in an overused them, just so we do not stray away from the original message of the film that is to portray her condition and how film was helped her.