Well, looking back at our preliminary task and comparing it to our official Split opening sequence, we can notice a lot of differences such as the continuity flow as our preliminary task had contained obvious continuity errors.
This is proven by the fact that I would be walking through one location that was being filmed and the continuity would dip to another different location where I would continue walking which means that the flow of the preliminary task was disrupted whereas, in the opening sequence, we had decided to keep recording (even if there was any mistakes..and believe you me, Nile made a lot of mistakes during the football process >.>) and not disrupt the recording process.
This is due to the fact that it would only make our continuity flow even better due to the fact that all of the character physical movement would be within a single video which we could edit with more ease.
Due to the fact that it was only a single protagonist being featured within the entire opening sequence, we didn't use no reverse shots whereas in the preliminary task but we did reverse video clips without disrupting the continuity error (e.g. using the flashback sequences while Nile/Brad is walking towards the fellow gang he had abandoned for his personal purposes) to avoid the length of the walking sequence itself and helped us progress much more since we had learned how to keep an audience immersed with using similar/lengthy scenes but executed in a variety of ways.
After all, we had known that the opening sequence is the formal introduction to the movie and a monotonous/cluttered opening sequence would have already led the audience to assume that the rest of the movie may suffer from these mistakes -- similarly to how the opening chapter of a book should grip the reader and be consistent in terms of its immersion up to the final moment.
Furthermore, we had learned to use the camera with and without the tripod although we felt that using the camera with freehand movement would have been handled with more ease plus it would also add to the atmosphere due to the fact that our Split movie would revolve around the main protagonist sprinting during football matches, being chased by ex-gang rivals/members so shaky camera movement would be required regardless to add to the realism and pacing of the movie.
- Omar Abasi (Split Movie Editor)
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