Scene one development to final edit.

When we first filmed scene one we found difficulties with the lighting as the defences between the two locations. I think the shoot however went well as we captured everything that we intended to capture and we worked with the story boards really closely.
These are my first edits of the two shoots , they have no yet been merged together as i had to edited them separately as they were filmed on separate days. I decided that the Establishing shot would be a medium long shot at a medium angle of sarah.


The second development is shown in the fist 1.54 of the video below , i had merged them together but i still wasn't happy. The lightning levels dot work when out next to each other and i don't thinks one of the shots used are the most effective , i also thought that the crossing of the faces doesn't work at the beginning as it is too revealing and doesn't create enough narrative enigma with in the opening. I feel it gives too much away too soon.

This development still needs a lot of adjustments to it. The lightning levels are still way out and therefore there isn't a nice flow throughout this scene. I think it is still a bit jumpy and some of the shots could flow better through out and into each other. I like the shots that we got though and despite the bad lighting i feel i can work to improve that and the scene will look really nice. To improve this scene i am going to add the music so i can work with it and make it fit , i will also improve the lighting levels and make the scene more mysterious. Give it more narrative enigma and suspense so that the reader isn't given to much information at one time. I tried to use shot reverse shots to help give the opening more structure i also wanted to make sure i had a lot of shot variety such as jump cuts , math on action and different angles.
I also need to add my titles to the opening ( i have a post explaining my titles developments ) Here 

My final edit i think was more effective than the rest , despite the voice over when the letter is shown that needs adding , i am happy with how it turned out. It follows the story board very well and doesn't give too much narrative enigma away but gives enough signifiers to enable us to understand the text.