Emily shouts at PJ

Emily has been busy all week with her thesis, but very generously gave up her Wednesday to shout at PJ. At least, that's how it seemed. We filmed the scene where they meet at the start of the film and the scene at the end. In both scenes she shouts at PJ. A better writer would claim it was syncronicty or intentional mirroring or something. I'm pretty sure it's just a slightly shoddy writing and a great excuse to have PJ berated for most of the day.

The two characters meet in a huge white, oddly shaped lecture theatre. Emily then takes a very long walk in a single take over to PJ. Shots wise, i was going for a Kubrick (big white room, shot symmetrically to emphasise the strange geometry) and a Lean (character takes their time just walking towards camera) I suspect that it's a bit more Kevin Smith, but you should aim high, right?

We then had to stage it and realised the only way to get the second part of the scene to work was to get the characters to walk over to an imaginary door in the side of the theatre. So out went my lovely Kubrick opening shot, since it blatantly did not have out imaginary door. We could have CGI'ed it in, but that might have quadrupled our budget and been a bit silly.

Then we filmed the scene at the end where they fight some more. It's the big emotional climax of the film. Me being me though, it ends with a joke. Michael's delivery of it is superb. So much so that every time he did, he made the leads corpse/laugh loudly off camera every single time.

Eoin