Dinner for Two is a Short film about a young woman making dinner for her parter with a creepy twist at the end!
Once we had our script we created a story board, with references from Chef for the cooking portions of the film and some references from Reservoir Dogs for the cheek cutting scene. Me and the Director (Lewis Pashley) devised our shot list, we tried to keep it relatively simple as neither of us were very experienced (this was our first time shooting 16mm!) I wanted to keep the camera stationary when shooting the scenes in the real world and moving when shooting the stylised flash back scene. This is a very easy way to create a visual contrast between two different time periods.
The film was born from a university project at the beginning of which we were given a haiku. From this Haiku we devised a story that our script writer developed into a 3 minuet story. this way of creating an idea was ideal for the situation we were in, the possibilities endless but no one decicive enough to make a decision!
Heres a shot from the flash back sequence, my favourite shot from the film because of the movement that we managed to create with the dolly. The idea was to use the movement in the foreground to accentuate the sideways movement of the dolly, also not having a clear view of the model in the background until we were looking from the perspective of our actress to show her interest in him.