1st Rough Cut

 My team and I were highly dissatisfied with how the first rough cut turned out. It had many, many shortcomings that convinced us that we were not going to have this project as our final product. 
I believe that there's a good and bad outcome to almost every event. Like most bad events, the bright side of this rather disappointing project was that we learned a lot, regarding what to do AND more importantly, what not to do.

A vital shot in the beginning of the shot (the one that follows the establishing shot, Ali's OTS) has two men sitting on the bench in the background. We obviously first didn't pay much mind to it, because we agreed that it adds to the verisimilitude and realism of the film and "normal, routine" park environment. However, our teacher reminded us of codes and semiotics, and suggested that two men in the frame shown specifically during an over the shoulder shot so early on in the movie might allow the audience to infer that the men might be related to the story. 
Furthermore, another flaw in this was that during one of the closeups, the actor looks directly into the camera. That is breaking the fourth wall, and we had not meant or intended for the fourth wall to be broken, so it was a shortcoming rather than challenging the conventions or intentionally doing it. We had initially not intended for that shot to be the final shot, it was one of the several takes we did, but our editor ended up using that one. 

Most importantly, a major shortcoming in our video was the avoidance of rules of composition. Although the night before the shooting, Haseeb and I had made an entire list of camera angles, movements and shot sizes we would go for while being mindful of the rules of composition such as the rule of thirds, appropriate headroom etc. Zuha had also composed a list of the camera angles. However, on the day of shooting, we ended up not following these. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UU4XtYIMI7CjO3PRoigz6efgN8W2EYbJ/view 

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