Archives de l’auteur : Thames (Londres, niveau collège)

Saturday 2nd May, the THAMES workshop group met outside Bow Church metro station to begin filming their film essai. The scenario is that a young girl, feeling neglected by her family (the ‘group’ that she is ‘envious of’) leaves home. She encounters an enigmatic young man on a railway station platform, who leaves a book behind on the platform bench, just as he leaves. The young woman spends the rest of the film trying to catch him to return his book. The action moves from the railway station to the local university, and then finally to his home.

The group began the day filming the station scenes: the ‘Docklands Light Railway’ is an above ground, and quite accessible railway line; we were lucky not to be stopped and questioned by railway staff.

The second set of sequences were all filmed in Queen Mary University of London – in their prestigious Queen’s building.

Our story is about a girl feeling left out and neglected by her family which impacts on her decision to leave. The first scene is her frantically packing her bag with essentials and getting ready to leave to make her way to the train station. When she arrives at the station she sits on a bench waiting for the train. During that time she takes a moment to collect herself and think back on her actions. A new character walks into the scene shifting the attention from the girl. The new character is a very open and confident person whereas the girl is more closed in and prefers her personal space.

The new character unpacks his bag looking for something. The girl finds herself staring at the new character due to his unusual style and recognises that the new character is reading the same book that she packed. He quickly repacks unaware that he left the book behind. As he hastily gets up, the girl picks up the book clueless of what she should do. She decides to follow the new character to return his book.

This transitions into a pacy sequence where she is trying to catch up to the new character to return the book. She finally catches up to the new character however the new character is unaware of this and slams the door on her when he reaches his house. We end the movie with her deciding whether she should give the book back or not.