Presented with the exercise of re-interpreting and re-filming a scene of choice, the amount of ideas are both confusing and staggering. I have chosen to re-film or ‘re-cover’ the monologue from a musical – Dance 10, looks 3.

This act is usually presented in an upbeat manner, as the protagonist reveals to the audience, her plans to make it big on Broadway and how she endeavors to do so. The act is usually presented quite playfully by a bubbly, vivacious character. However, in my attempt to recover it – I have decided to take a more dramatic approach in order to portray not the bubbling soul, excited by opportunity; but rather, a drained and washed up character that attempted, but never made it Broadway – this is her story.

My attempt to re-cover this act in a more serious, sombre and dramatic way will reside mainly in the choice of camera techniques and pacing that I will employ. I will use close-up camera shots combined with shots that place the subject in the bottom hand corners of the shot to create a disjointed, fragmented appeal. In conjunction with this, I will use a dark setting, preferably a black background in order to accentuate the sombre, gloomy mood of this interpretation.

The pacing will be transformed from an upbeat, driven musical number to a sad reflection on the past and what could have been. Instead of filming this all in one take, as it would be presented in a musical production, I will film this in a disjointed manner by using different camera angles and editing it in a fragmented, sharp manner.

This exercise will prove to be interesting as it will employ the information we have been taught about over the past weeks and how a director’s choice of cinematography and ‘coverage’ or ‘decoupage’ can influence the mood and expressive manner of a scene.