Creativer project diary Entry 2

Concerning my last post about the cut away to signify the death of a character I have been contemplating how the most effective way of signifying the death without showing it might be. many different ideas come to mind such as taking on the 1930's 'All quiet on the Western Front' use of the cut away when German soldier Paul Baumer gets shot by the French sniper instead of showing the soldier getting shot instead a clever use of only showing his hand twitch momentarily before falling limp allows audiences to know of the characters death. So there's the idea of showing a hand or perhaps a leg twitching before falling limp might work but I am UN-sure how it might look on screen. Another idea is the use of blood splatter on the wall, when a character is shot, in the head for example, instead of paying thousands on special effects a cut away could carefully pan to a close wall where the sound of a single bullet is heard through an echo in the room as blood is thrown onto the wall. Obviously the best way to shoot this would probably be in black and white as without colour it is harder to notice that the mixture of tomato ketchup and some gloopy bits thrown against a wall is not in fact the victims brains. there is a lot more planning to go into this than brainstorming ideas but the use of a cut away is really growing on me. The black and white Film Noir style might be a winner too.