Deema and I watched 'Brief Encounter' after being recommended by our teacher. The film made in 1945, seemed like just another black and white boring film that we wouldn't necessarily be interested in, or find inspiration from, but we were quite wrong.
The old film directed by David Lean and stars Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard, is about a woman meeting a stranger in a railway station, then tempted to leave her husband, because she has fallen in love with the stranger. The similar concept to ours, it should be obvious where we can get our inspiration from.
I was inspired by the music in the film, which seemed to capture the strangers emotions effectively, which I then came up with the idea of having no dialogue, and just using the soundtrack to tell the story. After watching it, I realised that finding true emotion between two actors will be hard, so to ensure we will do it correctly, we used an actual couple for the emotional kissing scenes, to capture true love!
At first we were inspired by the 1945 setting, and the use of black and white, but as we thought more about it, we realised this would prove hard, as the modern trains we would be using, there would be no way to make it look authentic. That, and the costume and props would be just too complicated. So that is when we decided to set it in the modern, with two strangers, just like in 'Brief Encounter' but have them on their commute to work everyday.
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