As you can see, we had only one camera to work with therefore we had to film the conversation twice so that there won't be any continuity errors in the camera position. However, the high-key lighting did work in our favour as we aimed to have bright vibrant colours in the flashback whereas in the present, the lighting would be very low-key. Therefore I think this worked very well. Also the location of the filming was very good because the scenery is very fancy and conveys happiness which will be contrasted to the bleakness of what is about to insinuate. I really like how casual Tyler and Ewan look in this picture because we really wanted to avoid 'cringey' or 'cheesey' low-budget cliches. The costumes as part of mise en scene are well done and the bright colours of Tyler's costume is contrasted to the black and white costume that Ewan is wearing. The pristine white shirt that Ewan is wearing is meant to represent his purity and life at this point in time but his shirt will start to get messier as the opening goes on to foreshadow his impending demise.
Here are some of the outtakes:
As you can see, getting the glasses to sync properly took a long time as it needed to the right in the middle of the camera shot. This was one of few problems that were faced in the filming process.
My teammates had to start filming at around 12pm to get the most out of the day. I do think the use of the tripod is very useful in this scenario as it stabilizes the shot and avoids any shakiness in the movement. There wasn't much movement in this scene as it primarily focused on the conversation between these two characters and their relationship. However I also thought that a microphone might have been useful for projecting the diegetic sound better. But we don't have the best of technology so we just had to roll with it. The one big issue with the clip is that it may be too long. We were given 2 minutes for the film opening and this scene alone turned out to be 30 seconds. This would have to be shortened down if we are to fit in the rest of the film. The glass filling up was unnecessarily long because it took up half of the clip's time. I argued to fast forward that part of the clip but the diegetic synchronous sound of the wind made it so the cut to the next shot had a drastic difference. Therefore we will have to find a way to remedy this problem, possibly muting that shot and adding sound of our own instead. The hardest challenge of all would be the editing process as we will have to cut down on alot of scenes or speed them up which would ruin the quality of the scenes. I do argue that 2 minutes is definitely no time to do a film opening and most film openings are far longer than 2 minutes. Tyler edited the clip afterwards which took around 1 hour to edit so it was relatively quick and provides encouragement to Tyler's editing ability.
Without further ado, this is the scene fully edited: