44. New Ending and Beginning Idea

When I edited the shots for beginning, it was too fast and lacked tension/build up to introduce LI. There was nothing for her to 'break' when she jumps on V. 

There's also a random person that somehow got into V's house with no explanation. 

The idea is to start with an empty vase, in the center of the shot, then LI walks (right) past it, about neck down so you can't see her face. This will also allow me to get a deep focus shot for once, since I can be behind the camera. 

This idea can slowly introduce LI and make the audience wonder who is this person walking around. 

After, it would switch to V on her bed drawing, without the dolly introduction. I feel that it might look strange, but that will be decided when editing. 

For the ending, it comes full circle to end on the vase again. This is after LI figures out V has the Hanahaki Disease, so she will put her bloody Sunflower on the table the vase is in and then she'll either put the Chrysanthemum V put in her hair in the park, or the one V dies from. This will replace the previous idea of LI dropping the Sunflower and having a close up of it.

My makeshift storyboard on how the idea would play out. (Ending)

Another is for LI to put a bouquet of Chrysanthemums into the vase, or laying them to rest on V, where the amount of flowers represents something:

Number of flowers in a bouquet:

1- unity, 'one heart' 

3- "I love you" 

4/7- not a good number, bad

5- Happiness, goodness, luck

I'm thinking to have 3 Chrysanthemums for V to say "I love you" back to LI when she says it afterwards. That also keeps the vase from getting overcrowded and looking clustered. 

For the Sunflower, it would have to be one; LI had only brought the one she just coughed up. Automatically it would represent 'one heart'; LI is now 'one heart' in the 'relationship', since V is dead.