Since I’m looking into how to shoot a scene that shows a character isolated and out of place in a situation, I went looking for scenes from other films for inspiration. My scene is a man alone in a foreign country, where he doesn’t speak the language and is reading a basic English grammar book. Assumably for the purposes of achieving a challenging goal, getting a job, education getting somewhere important etc. I look to the 2014 film The Water Diviner starring Russell Crowe, an Australian farmer in the early 1900’s after WW1, who travels to Turkey looking for the remains of his deceased sons. This scene shows him not long after arriving in Gallipoli, Turkey where he is sifting through the shallow water awaiting the decision of the Turkish and Australian soldiers of whether they will help him. I personally felt for Crowe’s character in this scene, he definitely seemed out of place and in an isolated situation. The director used many comparative shots, things that should be normal to him juxtaposed with things that are just totally foreign to him, making everything seem just out of place to his normal situation. From a mundane activity of sifting through sand on a beach (as he looks for water for a living) with the next shot is him picking up bullet shells from the sand. To the shots of horses grazing as he knows well, to the riders being Turkish men in traditional dress shading under strangely shaped umbrellas playing a board game. With shots of men riding horses to other drinking a Turkish tea on the beach in the sun. These shots were interesting as they were not just showing a bunch of foreign situations around him that he had to deal with, but many concepts he was familiar and unfamiliar with all around, that in his world were almost contradicting each other, causing an even more unfamiliarity in my opinion. This was certainly an interesting take on a theme like isolation that I look to be experimenting with myself in the future, giving me ideas and concepts I will definitely take into consideration when going ahead and filming myself.