First Video Assignment: Window Shopper
February 25, 2009For our first video assignment, I chose to make a one-minute Lumiere video about a window shopper.
The video tells a short story about a window shopper, played beautifully by actress Leila Hernandez. The story begins with her in front of a furniture/interior design store, simply browsing the display of products and looking around at what the store has to offer. The viewer of the video does not know what the shopper was doing before; she could have planned to go shopping, or could have stumbled upon the store by mistake. After browsing the display for a little while, all of a sudden, something catches the shopper’s eye. She keeps looking at the item from all angles, up, down and around. For reasons unknown to the viewer, the shopper is indecisive about making the purchase, shaking her head and starting to leave twice before slowly turning around and finally giving in. She then walks into the store to either look at the item closer or to make the purchase.
The video was taken using a handheld video camera, which brings the viewer into the action. The shot remains somewhat close-up, focusing the viewer’s attention on the shopper’s interaction with the store display. The video starts with a close-up of the display, with the shopper’s shadow visible in the window. Then, the camera zooms out and pans around to show the shopper and how she interacts with the display and the products inside.
