LOVE IN THE LIBRARY

Although I was acting in this exercise, colloquially titled by our group, ‘Love in The Library’, it was one of the most enjoyable videos from this semester to film and edit. Filming in the library only really sprang to mind as an idea due to the fact that we thought it wouldn’t be crowded during that time of day, and we could use the abundance of space however we wanted. We hadn’t initially thought about using dialogue, but we did have to come to terms with the fact that, of course, filming in the library meant no speaking. This wasn’t a problem though, as we ended up putting our characters in a traditional library setting, and having them as complete strangers to each other. In post production, I decided to keep it as a silent film (apart from the background sounds of the library recorded), though if I go back to the video again I would love to put a piece of music on top and see how it changes the mood, whether it becomes more romantic and intense or whether I make it go down the road of comical and light-hearted. I decided to keep the small giggle at the end in, as although I wasn’t meant to break character during the production, and Michael cut it out in his edit, I liked the idea of the characters kind of making light of the situation. I initially didn’t touch colour correcting the video, so it looks very dark and blue, though I used ‘Love in the Library’ in my colour grade post so there is a rather dramatic change there.