My Rough cut for film opening

JAHMAL/SVEN rough cut from cmdiploma on Vimeo.

This is the rough cut version to mine and Svens film opening, and as it is a rough cut everything hasn't been sorted out properly. I am going to share with you the views of other people about our work.

Feedback for our film: In class the feedback about the strenghts and weaknesses of our film were as followed.

Strenghts: The strengths of your film were how you positioned all of your shots, and how you managed to time each action with the next action. Good acting from the actors.

Weaknesses: I expected something more to happen at the end of the opening, like the person in the hoodie to pop up somewhere. There was no sound.

We don't intend to change much at all because we feel that as an opening to make it look like an opening you need to keep it simple and not have to much going on otherwise it will look too much like we are trying to get everything into the first minute of the film. The teacher said to us that he was expecting more to happen like the person in the hoodie to pop up again at the end, but in my opinion that would ruin the film because the opening is supposed to introduce the characters, and if we made what he said happen we wouldn't know what to do with the rest of the film.

In our film opening we still have to add music because without music it is bare and you don't know what is happening and it doesn't appeal to the audience. We also have to add all of the titles aswell, and also cut down on a few of the shots.

Charna and Sophie think that our camera shots and not revieling the main character are our strenghts of the film.
They think that our weeknesses of the film are not having any music, and they think that we should have more in the background like people or animals etc.