Read Through Workshop

The technical and aesthetic approach will include a lot of close up camera shots. Our film will be about the relationship between the two sisters and closeups will allow the camera to show intimacy and emotion between the characters. We will include a lot of high angle shots for the sister with agoraphobia. This shows entrapment as the camera points down towards a character. making them feel small and powerless. The mise-en-scene of the characters home will include comforting items, such as; candles, teddy bears, slippers, and warm thick clothes which shows the characters attempt to comfort herself in her own environment. The lighting will be low key and the colour monotone to show the negativity of this way of life the character is living due to her trauma. Lastly, the editing rhythm will be slow and somber. This will express the intimate relationship between the two sisters.

The read through workshop was helpful for our group to realize the positives and negatives of our scripts. We brought two scripts along and the read through made us realize that their was positives in both scripts, and if Carly and Nick work together and bring both their ideas from each script together then we will have a good screenplay. Nick's approach was having a pregnant mother suffering from agoraphobia and how her daughter having a child encourages her to leave the house. Carly's approach was more light-hearted and involved a daughter helping her mother gradually overcome her agoraphobia by making her collect the letters from outside her home. The chemistry between the mother and daughter in Nick's script was very good and I would prefer to use that interaction in the script more than Carly's. However in Nick's script, his character had been struggling for four years and she wouldn't overcome this struggle is just five minutes. Nick's script was also 11 pages long and too long for a five minute short film. Carly's idea was more condensed and more appropriate for a five minute short film. Her idea was a small step in the long journey of overcoming agoraphobia. If we can combine the lines written by Nick between the mother and daughter, but use the more condensed narrative idea by Carly then this will work well.

Through the read through it really brought our script alive and we enjoyed hearing it played by too young actresses. As a group we discussed using them both, instead of an older mother and a daughter. It will be easier to get hold of them than getting an older actress. Nick is reworking the script and using ideas from both of the script so that we can cast two younger actresses. We were thinking of casting them as two sisters instead of a mother and daughter.

Nick's script: https://www.celtx.com/a/ux/open?id=https%3a%2f%2fwww%2eceltx%2ecom%2ffeeds%2fdefault%2fprivate%2ffull%2faf265177864488583e714b410bf4477ccb9c6635%3fpublic%3dtrue