My name is Salmon, like the fish. First name, Susie.

Susie Salmon is the main character and also the narrator of the story, She is a 14-year old girl who is murdered by neighbour Mr Harvey. The image below is taken from the opening of the film; a lot of colour is used to portray the normality in their lives.

After her murder she proceeds into the after-life, which is depicted in two different ways, depending on her emotion. When Susie is happy, Heaven is a sunny place with a lot of high-saturated colour. However, when Susie is sad the images become dull and lonely.

Before the death of Susie the film is bright using highly contrasted colours and quite a bit of satuation. There also seems to be some sort of flow such as bloom to the images, this creates quite an angelic feel to the film; she is portrayed as a young girl who is enthused with life. I especially love the shots at the start of the film where she is riding her bicycle in the street taking pictures of her family, shown below.

When Susie enters the after-life her Heaven is very bright and colourful, with a lot of surreal imagery. The brightness of her world is heavily contrasted against the darkness of the real world. This image shows some of the surreal imagery that is seen in Susie's Heaven. These kind of images say a lot about childhood imagination.

However, I do prefer the more realistic scenes in heaven such as when she is walking through the forest. The next image shows Susie in her Heaven just as she realises where she is.

When Susie's emotions become darker, so does Heaven. In the image shown below she is about to enter her murderer's house. The kind of angle on this shot makes Susie seem less powerful than the house, but also as though the house is beckoning her.