The tree scenes in 'Shawshank redemption' (1994 D. Frank Darabont) formed inspiration for the character approaching the single tree in our silent short. This location may have been a place the protagonist used to escape from the world. He used this experience to give his friend hope to set him free from his own institutionalised mind, stopping him from succumbing to the fate of those come before him, by planting a toolkit for freedom. This place symbolises freedom with no constraints, way out in the middle of nowhere. There are also obvious aesthetic values to the composition of a single tree running along a wall in the middle of a field, moreover, the wall could be viewed as the guiding figure for the strugling character.
There are many creative outputs that have been inspired or informed by a particular place. For example Tolkein is said to have found some inspiration for 'Lord of the Rings' (c.1954) from Mosley Bog near Birmingham, close to his family home. Having written it during the second world war you could imagine how the boggy woods may have come to life through the treacherous bombings on the industrial city of Birmingham. Another example is ‘Harry Potter’ by J. K. Rowling, if you see the private school she went to as a child, it pretty much is Hogwarts, you can see where the inspiration was from. Though personally not something that I’ve been inspired by. What I am trying to say is that a location is quite usually the catalyst for the most inspired creative outputs the world has seen. It affects us all as creative practitioners; artists, musicians and writers alike. It is this poeticism that I want to draw upon in the making of the short.
(http://flavorwire.com/199845/10-real-life-places-that-inspired-literary-classics/3 last viewed 05/11/11)
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