CONSTRUCTION: FILMING AN ADDITONAL BEGINING SCENE

After gaining feedback on our film, we were faced with the problem that it began very quickly, coming straight in with a monologue, We decided we needed an additional beginning scene whereby we ease the audience into the film and set the tone and genre. 

We wanted to show the protagonist in her own little world, daydreaming and showing her as a hopeless romantic. We did this by using a tracking shot as well as by having holding a collection of romance books. We used a mid shot/ reverse tracking shot to clearly display her. we then want to position her as unlucky in love and romance and so we chose to have a short confrontation with another boy, where the protagonist gets knocked and drops her books to the ground and delivers the line "why can't real guys be like the men in my stories".

We chose to have her say this as it positions her as a bookworm who prefers fantasy to reality. We used a two person wide shot to show this altercation and then an over the shoulder shot to display the books falling to the ground, we chose to do this as it gives the audience a clear view of the type of books she was reading, romance novels. Thus reinforcing the idea that she is a hopeless romantic. One of the book titles is "Love is Blind" this symbolises to the audience the idea that the protagonist dosent realise the player is a bad guy and that the other boy is the true loving romantic. 

The shot of the protagonist dropping her books is a match shot to the end scene where the nice guy accidentally bumps into her, this makes the connection between what she said about real guys being like the men in her stories. It shows that the nice guy could be the man of her dreams just like the men in her stories.