Ben Stiller stars in his directed movie The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. His character is very lonely that clearly lacks confidence and common knowledge. The colors of the environment are cold, grey and dull which match his life style and interests. Mitty tends to day dream a lot and imagine scenarios that aren't happening. In the sequence of pictures below, Walter Mitty walks into work and stars at a woman who the audience believe greets him, we feel the awkwardness of the situation as a girl comes from behind to answer (Cheryl's) question. Both women look at Walter very strangely. Further into the scene, we get lost into Walter's dream of him imagining himself speaking to this woman, Cheryl. The moment breaks up when the camera shows a wide shot of Walter still in his own imagination and senior staff are standing there laughing at him.
We notice Walter starts zoning out and we are warned by this when the camera focuses on him on a close up and the background very slowly zooms out, almost like the famous Alfred Hitchcock zoom shot. Suddenly the camera focuses on Cheryl who walks away from her friend and the environment morphs into the snowy mountains.
For my FMP, my characters imagination is similar to Walters due to the fact he allows himself to day dream and imagine he is somewhere else. I want the environment of his reality and imagination to intertwine with eachother so we feel the escape of his reality.
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