I was watching the TV show Utopia the other day when I realised, it is shot in almost the exact same way as I would like my story to be shown. It has the same elements that make the Coen brother's and Wes Anderson's films visually interested but it comes across more intensely in Utopia. There seems to always be more space or framing in every scene and pretty much every shot is beautiful although sometimes in a horrifying or eerie way. If even half of my scenes could have the impact the cinematography in this show has then I would view this project as a success.

 Utopia may have also changed the way I want to approach doing work for this project however. Utopia centers around a graphic novel and the way this graphic novel looks is pretty awesome.

You don't see much of it throughout the show but when you do it doesn't look like a typical comic at all. The way the pages are laid out in a way
where there doesn't seem to be any panels, the images sort of just flow into each other and every page looks like its own piece of art, not just because a lot of the pages seem to consist of only one image. In the show the comic is essentially the ramblings of a mad man and in a way this is the sort of look I would like for my work. Sort of, I want the kind of roughness and jumbled together look the comic has. A problem with this is it could be really hard to do with a coherent story. Utopia can succeed at this because this graphic novel isn't real, what we see doesn't have to make sense and we can just trust the characters that it does. Mine however, would have to make sense.