I think the work produced for our opening is far superior to what we created in the initial exercise. Our first attempt at putting together a short film was a card game exercise, pictured above. There are many things we should've done better in the sequence, for example, the camera work. You can see in the shot on the top left we had the idea of doing a high angle shot but we failed to think about the way Fabian (man on the left) was going to be cut off when he stood. The other shot is a section of a tracking shot, but we regretted not focusing it properly, loosing the detail in the hands and the cards that the shot was meant to be drawing attention to. You'll probably also notice that both shots from the card game are quite dark, partly this was because we left all but one light on above them to make the scene more dramatic, but it wasn't until we finished filming that we realized we had left the light sensitivity shutter on, only meant to be used in bright sunlight. A silly mistake fortunately we didn't make again.
The preliminary match cut exercise uploaded on this blog was an improvement, we still made slight misjudgments on the characters position in the screen but our lighting and angles where much more effective. I think one thing we didn't consider enough was the mise-en-scene. More appropriate costume for the teacher character would have established the relationship between the two and made the scene more comprehensive.
In our final film we drew upon our experiences and were able to create well considered, professional scenes.
