This exercise consists in filming a short sequence based in the following scenario: you're a looking around your empty room and, after a while, when nothing interests you, you notice a bottle. And then, you hold the bottle, unscrew the lid and pour a drink. But, in between, something happens that interrupts you.
Well, I sketch at the beginning two frames that have the intention to emphasize the emptiness of the room. Thus, the only thing that we can see is a table with two chairs. That gives the idea that nothing interests us. Perhaps I misunderstood the focus here. When thinking again about it, it's clear to me that this has nothing to do with either getting bored or distracted. I mean, it's empitness and with regards to this, it's fine. But there's no information provided to show how I'm at home and because there's nothing to do there, I finally pour me a drink.
Anyway, the notes that go together with my drawings are the one below:
1. A table and two chairs. Wide shot to reflect the emptiness of the room.
2. A sort of a close up of the table.
3. Wide shot of a bottle in one of the corners of the room. Typical mess in an alcoholic home. It's non sense at all that this bottle is the only trace of the careless of this person. But...that was my view.
4. The alcoholic takes the bottle. Mid shot.
5 y 6. Two close ups. Holding the bottle and unscrewing it.
7. Following the framing, something interrupts the scene. In principle, it would be a door bell- I should have put a note such a ding-dong or something like to clarify this on this sketch..
8. Final shot. Another mid one. It can be interpreted that I went to the door to see who was there and after seeing no one, I went back and started to drink.
The camera doesn´t move as the sequence goes along.
On reflection. Looking back at the sequence after leaving one day, it's quite clear that the information that the alcoholic man is bored is not the only thing that has been lost. As a consequence of this mistake and helped by the framing, how the bottle grabs the attention is not well represented. The frame size chosen at this point of the story was certainly not good enough. It was necessary to make contrast between the bottle as part of the scenery and the bottle jumping off the backgroud. It was not difficult to make it as a close up could work well.
Besides all of this, it's also significant that the last shot doesn't respect the eyeline. The point of view is supposed to be dictated by the eyes of the protagonist but the glass of wine goes above their head in the end.
As a positive note, I think that the high angle shots that we have when the drink is poured, create a little bit of tension and suspense. It's like you're expecting something to happen. Indeed, something happens. A door bell rings. That's something.
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