For this project that we were given – creating a 7 shot sequence/film using the theme ‘seen and unseen’ – I want to work with the nuances of a relationship, or rather how true feelings between two people or sometimes or often kept hidden. What is shown on the exterior is not what is really felt in the interior.

In The Mood For Love

My inspiration for this concept comes from the film In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar Wai (one of my favourite films). The two main characters both know that their spouses are cheating on them with one another. They try to figure out how they should resolve this but end up having feelings for one another in the process. These feelings are not said by the characters but can be seen through their actions and hidden meanings in their speech.

Some shots and scenes that inspired me:

All scenes above have an element of seen and unseen (along with most of the other shots in the film, really) where the audience has to keep an eye out for details in other to infer what is being shown or rather not shown to them.

Plot Ideas