As soon as this project was set I began to consider other forms of research than just image stills influence by art. One of the first ideas that came to mind was to re-watch the 2003 film, 'The Girl with the Pearl Earring', based on Vermeer's eponymous painting, starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth. Not only does is this film centralised around the final painting, where Greit (Johansson) has posed for Vermeer wearing the pearl earring, but there are multiple scenes throughout the film that re-stage others of Vermeer's works.

Vermeer, The Girl with the Pearl Earring (1665)

Scarlett Johansson as The Girl with the Pearl Earring (2003)

I feel that Vermeer's painting communicate well into film and photography due to the subject matter and simple staging. One critic argued that, 'Jan Vermeer's works aren't paintings - they're frozen films, cinematic dramas in paint and canvas.' this was possibly due to the notion that, ' Vermeer is often said to have anticipated photography... There is convincing evidence - in the lucid cold blueish spaces Vermeer paints, the artfully disarranged furniture (a velvet upholstered chair pulled back, a rumpled tablecloth) and the particular quality of his edges, shadows and foreshortening - that he used a camera obscurer.' [1]