My style that I shall use in my film is similar to that which is used in 'Beginners'. This is a really enjoyable film although did not seem to be a big hit at the box office.Take a look at this trailer on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1DU_W9y-kI&feature=fvwp&NR=1
Ewan McGregor plays Oliver who meets a girl friend just after his father dies.
The whole film is "an uplifting comedy about how uplifting and transformative life can be" to quote the DVD cover.
He is struggling to come to terms with his father's death throughout the film. The film is shot partly in flash back, but this is inter-cut with the present day, and Oliver and his girl friend's developing relationship.
Oliver's father, played by Christopher Plummer, after being married for many years, and on the death of his wife, announces that he is gay. This Oliver is finding it difficult to come to terms with during the last few year's of his father's life. The final year's with his father is shown in flash back.
I particularly liked this film because I found the way it dealt with grief and the emotion of really missing someone you loved was very engaging. It used flash back scenes, where present day scenes were inter cut with scenes of Oliver and his father. It also used montage and and relationship editing where associations of ideas were made about grief and joy.
They cleverly used still images inter-cut with action and some montage scenes to develop an emotional response in the audience. As the website movies.nytimes.com states in its review: " the beautiful soft palette that seems to caress the characters, occasionally interrupting the moving images with illustrations and still photographs that jump off the screen like pop-ups"
I want to use some of these techniques in my film.
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