For my short film I want to show the effect that dementia
has on the sufferer and their family through an unconventional narrative
structure and detailed mise-en-scene. The film will start at the end, and then
cut back to the start, where a narrative about a dementia patient and their
family (mainly his teenager granddaughter) and the film will end at the end,
which is the scene which we saw at the start.
A man has just been moved into a care home and his daughter
and granddaughters have the job of clearing out the house. The teenager would then walk through the house from room to room and in each room there would be a memory/story of her Grandad, and the further she got through the house the worse his dementia would get. For example, in the first room (kitchen) there would only be slight early signs that something was wrong, e.g. walking into the room and forgetting why he was there, however by the time they get to the final room the memory will display more obvious signs of dementia, for example he forgets who someone is or he becomes agitated and delirious.
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