Sometime close to a year ago, now, I shot the footage for a short film that I wrote — working title “Coffee Talk.” I have been lacking the introduction for the film which takes place in a local cafe. I just recently put this together as a possible opening montage that is needed to set the tone and location. The footage was taken in a little cafe in Amsterdam (a real cafe, not one of the “coffeshops”, by the way) where they serve one of my favorite coffees, Illy. (The temporary music is a song by Carla Bruni). I hope to finish the whole short film sometime later this year to send to festivals.

On another related note, I still need to find a location to shoot as the establishing shot for the cafe. I do not think that the real location where I shot most of the short is very photogenic, so I would like to find the outside of a building that could serve as the setting for a local cafe — perhaps a Caribou Coffee or independent shop somewhere that looks nice from the outside.

If you have any comments related to this opening montage, or ideas for a nice cafe exterior somewhere, I would be very interested in hearing them.