Love and information- Cold

During this lesson, we decided to look at one of the 'random' scenes in Love and Information. The scene we decided to look at was called 'Cold'. The scene consists solely of the line someone sneezes. Firstly, we broke off into pairs and thought of ideas why the scene was effective, and why it was not. Here are some of our ideas:
Effective:

• Everybody sneezes, so naturally, this is a very relate able scene. Everyone can understand it, and relate to it. 
• It can be used to break up the longer scenes, or can be used to mask a short scene change. 

Not effective:

• The scene is very short, so may actually be forgettable. If people forget that it existed, what is the point in including it at all?

Finally, then we took this scene in our pairs and decided to think of five situations where a person may sneeze. Me and James decided that rather than going for a normal, perhaps overused idea of- a doctors office etc- we were going to do this in a more humorous way. TO do this, we came up with a list of objects that people could be allergic to (grass, pets, etc). Then we thought of things that people are not allergic to (houses, air, boys). To start off with, we listed a few things that made me sneeze. This items started off normally, and i sneezed when James said there was a dog, etc. However, as the scene progressed, i began sneezing at items that were less understandable- houses, people. This was rather funny as it showed us how the scene can be used to create comic relief and a break in the more dark scenes.