The aftermath – waiting for him to call when he said he would.
Using Erica as my main focus within this piece of film – I wanted to exaggerate the knowing feeling someone can get when you are waiting for that certain someone to call. There’s that anticipation and excitement – combined with the sudden urge to fling your phone across the room. I want him to call – but do I say when he calls? Nevermind, I don’t want him to call…But why hasn’t he?
I wanted to emphasise the warmer colours in this piece – especially the orange hue that I felt almost came off the vibrantly coloured mug Erica was holding in the first couple shots. Here we see that, engulfed in this orange, she is in a place of comfort waiting for someone (this call) to take her out of this comfort. I took note of the way – Erica lets her eyes almost falter in frustration or exhaustion as her character waits for him to call – so I highlighted that in having shots where her face was particularly illuminated. Not to mention the fiddling with her mug – to show the contrast of frustration with nervous excitement – so I purposely chose to zoom in on this.
And with the emphasis on making the frame smaller to show Erica looking at the phone – it felt as though there was a relationship between Erica and this phone – the phone is a person almost challenging her character.
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