Problem Regarding Bathroom Door

As you can see from Nicks post [Meeting: Friday 16th November] Rebecca's bathroom has a slightly odd layout. And from where her bathroom mirror is, you cannot see the bathroom door - which causes a problem for one of the aspects of our opening.

We originally wanted the main character to be able to open the bathroom door and walk up to the mirror in one shot. However because you cannot see the bathroom door from the mirror, this wouldn't work. So instead at one of our meetings we discussed this problem and came up with a solution, two seperate shots. One of her opening the bathroom door and coming into the bathroom and the next shot as the mirror. We could use a black screened title to connect the two shots together and keep the continuity.

Another issue was that when the main character was bent over the sink washing her face (ducked out of the shot) we were going to have the shot full of the door - because the downstairs door had just closed as a generalisation the audience would expect someone to be standing in the doorway - so by not having it you give them an anticlimax which would keep them interested as to what would happen next as we hadn't chosen the most obvious way of possibly introducing the other character. So to get around the problem of not being able to see the door we decided to just continue to have the shot as it would be - from the position of the mirror - and that the overall effect of the anti-climax would still work because you would still expect someone to be behind her. An example of the villain being behind the hero or heroine is in Fatal Attraction when Dan's wife Beth is looking in the cabinet and then she closes the bathroom cabinet door (which has a mirror on it) and you see Alex standing behind her which makes you jump. However as an audience you expect something like that to happen in that situation.

So overall we've solved the continuity problem within the bathroom by having an establishing show of the location. And the problem with the door and the anti-climax has also been resolved in our opinion.

- Steph