The chemistry exam is still unread, but the lab coat is already slipping off her shoulder.
The story
The chemistry exam is still unread, the room a chaos of molecular models and open textbooks. Between two chapters Vera keeps getting distracted, and you're there with the camera.
The setting
A cluttered student's room: a periodic table poster and an Einstein portrait on the wall, molecular models and test tube racks on the desk, a wobbly bookshelf full of textbooks, open textbooks on the blue bedspread. Vera in a white lab coat over black lace lingerie, white knee socks, glasses; the coat opens further as the shoot goes on, all the way to full nudity.
Who she is
In the chemistry room
Vera keeps putting off her chemistry exam until the final night, the room a complete mess of textbooks and molecular models. Between chapters she lets herself get distracted again and again, clever, curious, a little mischievous; she prefers to comment on the formula on the blackboard in her head rather than explain herself, and lets you watch with the camera as the lab coat slips further from her shoulder.
Her world
Mendeleev presented an early successful form of the periodic table in 1869 and left gaps for elements still unknown.
The modern periodic table arranges elements by increasing atomic number, that is, the number of protons in the atomic nucleus.
Recurring chemical properties appear in groups because elements possess similar outer electron configurations.
A short glossary
Atomic number
Number of protons in the nucleus of an element.
Period
Horizontal row in the periodic table.
Group
Vertical column with elements of related chemical properties.
Valence electron
Electron of the outermost occupied shell that largely determines bonding behavior.