This is one of the final scenes we shot. It involved the one glimpse of hope the audience encounters in the trailer. Where the protagonist of out trailer/film is handed an important envelope filled with money inside of it, that he takes and runs away with it. I framed the shot where the camera is above Tom (the main character), so connote that I am the bigger/inferior person compared to him, who now has very little in his life. This shoot was successful, we filmed the shoots a few times though, so that I found the right angle with Tom in the frame. And the location of the house/mini huts where also a good location (from the location recce) that we used for when he realises he had been ‘kicked out of his house’ because he did not pay his rent on time.
Different audiences will read the scene in different ways; receiving money in a brown envelope in secret may also connote shady dealings that will drag the protagonist into deeper trouble, although it is clear from his facial expression that he sees this as a lifeline. There is no explanation of the money's source at this stage.
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