Filming 15/02/12 - Cafe

Today we re-visited the cafe we found in Exeter to finish filming the 'meeting' scene, which is a crucial part of our narrative. We used various props as signs for the audience to decode and interpret:


Diary: The female protagonist is writing in her diary, drawing hearts around the date "14th February" - the preferred reading is that she is a romantic girl, who is longing for love. A negotiated reading could be that she is already in love and is perhaps waiting for her boyfriend as it's Valentines Day.

'Birdsong' Novel: The female protagonist also reads her book whilst in the cafe, connoting that she is intelligent and again, romantic, as it's a romantic novel. This foreshadows the romance that will blossom throughout the video. 

This POV shot captures a close up of the page in the novel (we purposely focused on this page because the words reflect the narrative in our video) whilst showing the male protagonist's entering in the background. We practiced this shot in our pre-lim filming which paid off because we were able to film the shot quickly and to the standard we wanted.

iPod: The male protagonist is listening to his iPod making the film relevant to a modern audience and connoting that he likes music - this also acts as an engima code because it makes the audience question what he's listening to/ what sort of music he likes.