4. Sub-genre: Slice-Of-Life

    Slice-Of-Life medias are an invitation to someone's day and regular life. The character is living their life, an artist who happens to have a horrible environment they grow in. There would viewers who how similar lives to the character, which is what I would want to happen. Medias with this sub-genre are made out to be happy and joyful, rather than depressing. Why not combat typical mainstream ideas?

    

    Some anime movies, Howl's Moving Castle or Wolf Children, are Slice-Of-Life and the camera is basically following the character's throughout their days. The camera movements aren't very impactful, like they're long takes or establishing shots and the characters aren't affected by the camera placement. In my film, I want to use establishing shots, if possible due to physical bounds, to show the character being a small person in the world, but being big enough to bring life to their void world. For long takes, those might be used to complement the character's emotion. For example, when they realize they messed up their painting, a long shot will be used to show them processing what they've done. 

    

    Another reason for Slice-Of-Life is for the bullying, and how the character copes with it, that would happen later on in the movie.

These two establishing shots are similar to what I want to see in my film, even with the sunset in the horizon. It makes the character look smaller in the vast area, while also showing (for these specific scenes) a longing for their goal. The character's goal in my movie was to bring happiness or change the way they see the dark world, they look at the sunset to get that spark of color into their life, to create. 

These two pictures also show how I want the diagonal look, with the character slightly off center to the shot, just to show off the area.