TIME LAPSE OF LILIES

I have decided to introduce the Lilies as a symbolic device in our thriller opening. We first see them when our main character Natalie comes across a young, beautiful child. By impulse she hands the child a Lily.

When choosing the flower to give to the child we researched the language of flowers and we found that Lillies symbolise purity which would work well with the purity of a child. We looked at painting from the medieval and Victorian era and found one of the Annunciation, where a lily is found inbetween the Angel Gabriel and the Virgin Mary - picture seen below. We used the Lillies to anchor the meaning of the narrative.

The viewer will probably think nothing of it but later on you see her back at home with the Lillies.When back at home she accidentally gets some pollen on her hand then wipes it on her face to try and clean it off. The viewer then sees the pollen smeared across Natalie's face showing a new side to her, a more unclean contaminated Natalie. The child's name is also Lily as it symbolizes Natalie's connection with children which is similar to her connection with flowers

Here you see the lilly in between the Virgin Mary
and Angle Gabriel to symbolise Purity