Scene III — The Meeting Scene

This third scene follows Robyn and Scott having planned to meet. This scene fills in more of the plot, although Robyn is an unreliable source and so is not telling the absolute truth. In this scene, Scott agrees to meet up with the drug lord that Robyn is supposedly tailing, as she says it is 'too dangerous' for her to make the meet herself. She plays on Scott's gentile manner and feigns innocence. She tells Scott to wait for her signal by phone back at the newspaper agency office.

(in chronological order from left to right)
           1. Static long shot of a lamppost in a park later at night. The scene, as with all our 'night' scenes, will be filmed at dusk and darkened in post-production: we learnt last year that this method leaves picture quality much higher than having to lighten shots that are too dark. Robyn enters the shot and leans against the lamppost [location: Cambridge].
            2. Fragmented shot of Robyn, and we see Scott walking up the path to meet her. She stays still as he approaches, suggesting resolution in Robyn and naïvety in Scott.
            3. Close-up of Robyn's face, staying still and listening to Scott approaching. We initially had this shot placed before the shot of Scott approaching her, but we felt that the new order established events more concisely and allowed for smoother transition, into...
            3a. Pan round to profile view of Robyn, who addresses Scott.
            4. Cut to profile view of Scott. The conversation that follows will continue to use these, or similar, shots.