Camera Angles -

Every night we sketch a storyboard

Drawings spread across the bed

Deciphering the day ahead and conversations

Sequences and camera angles

You’re using charcoal and felt-tips

I’m posing mannequins to map it all out

The imaginary camera work

Kicking leaves up in the cul-de-sacs

Where every road’s a movie set

And every conversation has been pre-approved

And road-tested by focus groups

And here, back in real life at our desks

Still imagining we’re filming on sets

Where the cameras film in single takes

So you pick out locations and directions for the cast

I’ll be learning lines for all occasions that arise

We’ll imagine clapperboards for every single scene in our day-to-day lives

And you’ll find continuity from one clip to the next

I’ll be free to improvise as long as it complies with an overall view

Where the cameras always follow you

And it’s enchanting in a certain way

Every word is magnified

Every look considered

Yet we’re bordering on obsession on directing

Alongside fictitious camera crews that film

Imaginary plots that never work through

When the cameras never follow you

So you could leave the stories and the dialogue to chance

I’ll be free to improvise and take things as they come and

We’ll keep up an open mind for every single scene in our day-to-day lives

And we’ll find continuity from one day to the next

No-one needs a storyboard to tell us what we should have known all along

That the cameras follow everyone