What's virgin mean?

The opening shot of the short film is a medium close up deep focus. The radio is in focus, but the hand is in the foreground. We know that there is a women cooking as she is mixing something in a bowl. The focus of the shot is the radio because it shows the audience the atmosphere of the home and it shows the type of family they are.

The next shot is a close up of a picture with a rainbow and a child holding a feltip. This suggests that there is a child who likes drawing and colouring. The next shot of the sequence is a medium close up shallow focus of the women and of the young girl drawing. The women is in focus because she s the centre of attention as we are awaiting her response.  

As the short film goes on we come to a point in the film were the child asks the mum “mummy what does virgin mean”. We see a close of the mum showing her puzzled face to the girl’s question.  She replies quickly “sorry honey” and the young girl repeats the question. We see a long shot of the women showing the audience her body language as she starts fidgeting with herself as she does not know what to say, after 5 seconds she explains herself.

Throughout the short film, there are over the shoulder shots as the whole film is a conversation. As the mum is trying to explain what it means she is holding a bunch of parsley. As she explains herself she is fidgeting with them showing the audience how uncomfortable she is with the conversation she is having with her daughter.

She goes on and tells her daughter that “daddy puts it in mummy’s special place” as she is explaining she is holding a bowl and mixing some sauce with a spoon. As she carries on she starts mixing the sauce faster and faster showing the audience that she is getting excited and reminiscing the past. The audience might get the impression that she hasn’t had sexual intercourse in a long time.