Project #2 (or #3...)
"The Antagonistic Roommate"
February 16, 2011
P1 forget's her keys and after ringing the doorbell and no one answering it she is forced to enter through the back door. She walk into the living room, past P2 (who has been sitting there the whole time) to put down her bag. She leaves the room and returns a few seconds later. P1 makes gestures to indicate to P2 that she would like to sit where her books are. She does this until P2 moves the books. After P1 sits she begins to point to where she left her bag, indicating for P2 to pass it to her. She repeatedly does this until P2 gives in and hands P1 the bag. P1 then takes out a book and gets comfortable as she begins to read while P2 tries to get as far away from P1 without getting off the couch.
The intent of this film was to create a situation where 2 people (roommates) don't get along but are almost forcibly put in the same space. One roommate forgets her keys and has to enter from the backdoor (which is left unlocked) to be able to enter the house. Throughout the film P1 (the person that forgot her keys) is asking P2 for favors while P2 would much rather ignore P1's existence.
The idea of this film came from personal experience of living in a dorm with seven other roommates and sometimes wanting to just be left alone for a bit but never being able to actually get peace.
After working through this piece the main theme became the tension between P1 and P2 caused by P2's ignoring of P1 and P1's invading of P2's space bubble.
The main problem areas are shots that could have been shortened while filming but not cut in the actual editing because the placement of the cut would seem awkward. More zooming in on faces could have been done so that a better view of facial expressions could have been seen but due to a certain person's (me) lack of ability to work a tripod and camera, controlling how the shots were taken (including angles and not finding the zooming function on the camera) became very difficult.
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