Paper Talk

Our short project brief was to create a 1 minute film using a prop and 2 characters; having one of the characters approach the other with a note which had some sort of message which the receiving character had to react to.
My approach to this was by having a message that would evoke a negative reaction on the receiving character. I also thought as my characters were a male and female, the note could be relative 'divorce' i.e. the female handing over the divorce papers to the male character. During filming I decided to play around with the audience expectations and portray the male character as optimistic and reassuring only to be approached by the female character, leaving him shocked and dissapointed by the message in the note.