Location and Casting

We decided to choose our location to be in a huge mansion house to convey that the woman is extremely rich and can get and have whatever she likes. We thought of houses such as these..

For Daphne's character we chose to dress her smart and chique because we are dressing her in contemporary wealthy clothes and we got our inspiration from Gossip Girl characters Blair and Serena who are also wealthy and dress the way we would like Daphne to dress.

Film Style

In this film The Single Man we liked the way Tom Ford composed all his shots like it was a piece of art, this is something we want to do in our film and the type of filming we would like to try to create. We want to film our film quite modern and make it contemporary because in the book it is set in 1920's. Although The Single Man is set in the same sort of time ours is it looks more modern and thats the impression we want to make on our audience.



This was another film we looked at by Peter Greenaway called The Cook,The Theif, His Wife and Her Lover, which again all the shots are very composed and said to be like a portrait. This is also set in the same time as ours but again made to look contemporary which is something we are really going to try to create.

Scene list and cast for our short film

A Cup of Tea by Katherine Mansfield.

Scene List:

Scene 1, ext, day.
Show she’s a rich yet ugly bitch. She can afford everything but not looks. Her features are nice but not pretty put together. Walking down the road.

Scene 2, int, day.
Flower shop.

Scene 3, int, day.
Boutique.

Scene 4, ext, day.
Meets miss smith. Street scene, outside the shop.

Scene 5, int, day.
Arrive at he house and set out tea, conversation between the two.

Scene 6, int, afternoon.
Husband comes in “bowled over”, dialogue.

Scene 7, int, afternoon.
Rosemary and Phillip. Rosemary goes to her writing room, money.

Scene 8, int, afternoon/early evening.
Dismissing Miss Smith.

Scene 9, int, early evening.
Rosemary and Phillip – end scene – her insecurities come out.

Cast:
Miss Smith/Naomi – Claudia R.
Rosemary/ Daphne -
Phillip/ Andreas – Andreas H.

Style:
-Modern.
-21st century.
-Contemporary.

-Daphne has pretty features but when put all together is not beautiful.
-Naomi is “a light, frail creature with tangled hair, dark lips, deep, lighted eyes.”
-Andreas has a “charming smile.”

'Signs'

today in media we watched the film 'Signs' which was a film about a man who leads a really boring life, he's lonely and nothing interesting is going on in his life. He then sees this girl from the office opposite, who catches his eye. Then from here his life gets increasingly more interesting and he starts communicating with this girl through notes on pieces of paper and they play games such as norts and crosses. Then one day this girl disappears and he is back at square one, with his life being boring again. That all changes when she shines a mirror on his face from above and she tell him she got promoted and he asks her out to celebrate and he finally meets the girl.

We spoke about how the shot angles and facial expressions convey to the audience that his life is boring and dull and when he's at the photocopying machine you see the machine having paper flowing out endlessly and then a shot of him which portrays that his life is endless and on going. Then the music gets more upbeat when the man meets the girl which tells the audience finally he has a point in life, and you see him rushing to work wanted to speak to her as much as he can.
I really liked this film because I feel like everyone can relate to this story we all know someone or are that person who has been through this problem and that's what makes it viewer friendly and because we like this man and want him to find someone which keeps the audience hooked to watch more.