filming

25/10/10
We shot more individual shots at Bethany's house. We came up with some ideas to put the signs on peoples hands. We felt this could represent a more meaningful and personal message being displayed by the people in the shots. We casted a friend from school who was willing to draw a message on their hand which says 'i miss you' this not only presents the theme of love but also matches some lyrics in the song we are using. This idea was influenced by a book called Post Secret where people present messages on many different surfaces through different media. We put her in various shots, high and low angles and in different lighting. Also we tried to put the message in the foreground in full focus, and the girl blurred in the background. We also tried a message without words and used a heart icon, through the use of icons we tried to achieve a contrapuntal message by painting a heart on Bethany's finger. We felt this could represents hate for love, the song is about love and we wanted to show there are ups and downs to relationships as the lyrics could suggest and that love doesn't always guarantee a successful relationship.

Through this experience we discovered that we can portray the message of love in different forms through icons (symbols). Through this experiment we were able to be more creative with our style of mise-en-scene.

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