How Inside Out Inspired My Portfolio

How Inside Out Inspired My Portfolio

Inside Out was a spectacular 2015 movie that just recently had its sequel in 2024. I was around the age of 8 when the first movie came out and when I look back on the years in my life: this really was an impactful story. In this movie, Riley is a growing young girl that learns to control her emotions. However, this movie also touches on memories and how those core memories make Riley who she is. My theme is exactly what the message of Inside Out is trying to convey. Through the portfolio, I want to depict how the memories that people grow up with, good or bad, build them up into who they are. I also wanted to incorporate how it is crucial to cherish and remember those old days.

 When it was time for me to choose a theme, the only idea I could really think of was nostalgia. Riley slowly loses her old recollections of what she used to enjoy as she grew older. For example, she moved away and slowly lost connections with her old best friend. Or when Riley forgot about her favorite childhood jokes with her parents and her toy, Bing Bong. There was this one scene where Joy went down to the bottom of the memory island and cried when she saw all the things Riley USED to do. This movie does a really great job with incorporating techniques of flashbacks and quick cutaways to really stress the unfortunate reality of growing up. As people watched Inside Out, the directing makes it hard to not feel nostalgic.

Overall, this movie was the best inspiration I could have for my portfolio. Similarly to Riley, I am growing up as well and slowly realizing that I'm straying away from doing the things that I used to do as kid. I don't remember the events that I used to have fun with, and I don't find some media funny now than how it was before. I'm not the only feeling this way, so it's important to understand that everyone at least in one point in their life felt this way too.  I'd like to make this my magazine theme, so that people will look back with this sense of nostalgia and understand that it is alright to grow into the new.