A Grieving Heart

My second film shoot was with Hannah. The assignment was to take pictures with leading lines at a shutter speed of 125, letting the light meter dictate the f-stop. I decided to tell a story using the five stages of grief as a loose guideline.

"A grieving hearts ties you to the past and blinds you to the future."

The story is a literal representation of this quote. A young girl goes about her life with a blindfold on and a mysterious ribbon holding her back. At first, she tries to ignore it.

Then she gets angry and tries to fight it, to no avail.

She does everything she can to escape the force that's pulling her, trying to believe that if only she were stronger or if she went somewhere new, things would be different.

Her strength fails her. New views can't change what's in her heart. She slumps in defeat, having given up.

Grief overtakes her. She knows what she has to do.

She gives in and follows the ribbon to its end. It's tied around the headstone of her little sister, who has been calling her back all this time. 

Having come to terms with her sister's death, she is finally able to slip off the blindfold and loosen the ribbon.