5 stages of grief

The 5 Stages of Grief-and how we want to implement them in our film opening.

In class earlier this week, my partners and I we’re discussing ideas for the very ending of our opening, when I remembered how the movie ‘La La Land’ is split into different seasons, and I came up with an idea.

Rather than split our film into seasons, I proposed to that we split our film into 5, deriving from the five stages of grief. This way, we could do something similar to ‘La La Land’ and write on the screen which stage of grief Valerie is experiencing at the time.
While we were originally planning on showcasing Valerie sometime after her sister's death, using grief as a divider will make this much more clear.


Grief is the most emotional time when a person is suffering the loss of a loved one, so in this point of the movie, Valerie will be more depressed and upset, as she is only just beginning her journey of accepting this death. In our film opening, we will only briefly show Valerie's suffering, but the audience will see enough to understand the deepness of her pain. A clear and easy way of showing grief is like crying and releasing emotions, so we plan to implementing this into our film opening.