Viewing Logs

Persepolis (2007)

• Doesn't dwell too much on the aspects of war

Waltz with Bashir (2008)

• Yellow skies, grey foreground
• Causing disruption in the streets
• comic art style
• heavy shadows
• documentary
• soldiers walking through field
• filmmaker - flashbacks from Lebanon
• music - dramatic, strings
• sky fades from yellow to grey/blue
• melancholic
• "i watched my friends go up in flames" sees boat attacked by bombs
• soldiers running and shooting guns
• follows perspective of soldiers
• 34:49 time lapse of guy playing guitar while tanks attacking in background
• rock upbeat music juxtaposed with visuals - desensitised to war
• 1:21:10 people walking through streets, moaning/crying
• ends with live documentary footage + no sound

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

• Bombs dropped outside their home
• Aerial shot following plane across ruined city
• Shows civilians dealing with war
• - dead bodies carried away
• city being destroyed
• ending sad music and memories of setsuo
• seta imagines that they're still together
• final - long shot as seta looks out into the distance
• on wiki, author says using children makes the story more relatable, i hope to achieve the same

Overall thoughts:
I think that my story will follow a similar method to that of Persepolis, in which the war is taking place in the background of the film, yet the film largely follows the character's perspective and everyday life.