Oliver Ryborg Kjeldsen 4TD Marselisborg Gymnasium
3EN1 Oversættelse 24.08.2014
Passion in a cold world
The story takes place in a large city. It seems to be London as red double-decker busses, are shown in the areal view of the city, in the beginning of the short film. Now we move down from the areal view to the streets. Here the camera is focusing on details and it is zooming in on the feet or the faces of the pedestrians. It seems that the camera should emulate the human eye, so the viewer gets a feeling of walking amongst the pedestrians'. Here we encounter a man trying to collect signatures from bypassing pedestrians without much luck. At one point he walks around outside a clothes-selling store. Inside the store a woman is dressing the mannequins in the window. The man catches the girl's eye through the window while she is hiding behind a mannequin.
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