Wednesday 15 February 2012

Filming Diary: Cafe Scene (15/02)

After running out of battery and not being able to finish the 'cafe scence' we re-visted Exeter to complet the scene. We thought about what props we wanted to include in the scene before hand allowing the filming to go as planned. Below I will discuss what props I used and why I did so.

 







Diary: Here we see Hannah writing in her diary and drawing love hearts surrounding the purposely chossen date of 14 the Feb (Valentines Day). The perfered reading of these conventions is that there is a girl, who longs for love. However a negotiated reading could be that she has already found love and is thinking about her lover or waiting for him.



Birdsong novel: Hannah reads this novel connoting an intelligent and romantic persona, highlighting our genre. This foreshadowns the romance that is yet to blossom. We used a POV shot of her reading the book and selected this page specifically as the words relflect the narrative: "her eyes looked up to his". Before perfoming this shot we experimented and practised shooting this shot (pre-lim) which paid off as we have created a very sucessfull shot with lots of meaning.


iPod: Here we see Steve listening to an iPod making our music video relvant to a modern day audience. This also fits in with Steves character as music to him is of great importance. Enigma is also created as the audience may question what he is listening to? Is is something romantic? Does this refect his desir



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