Time Based Media - Introduce A Character in 6 Seconds

This assignment was to create either a gestalt or ambiguous character introduction.  I struggled a little with this one.  I had an idea that I was working towards and trying to make work.  The character was a computer programmer, but a villainous one.  Maybe even diabolical!  It just felt a little weak to me.

So, the morning of the project, I changed my idea.  I couldn't get this shot from M out of my head.  Professor Lafayette showed it in class, and although right on the nose, it is also elegant and a masterful use of light and mise en scene to tell the story.  I know my homage to the movie is a little straighforward, but here's the storyboards I came up with:

And the final video here:

The comments and responses were very good, and I must have achieved ambiguity because people went all over the place with what the background of this interaction might be.  Is it the man's trap?  Is he there to help the wolf?  Is he there to kill the wolf?  That's what I was happy to hear.

On the other hand... I think a lot of that ambiguity also has to do with lack of clarity of the drawings.  If I had more time, I would have liked to draw the wolf withering a little more and shrinking back into the frame.  The goal was to have a dramatic shift of power.  In the first instance, the wolf is scary:  I would be afraid of it, but after the wolf sees the shadow of the man, he shrinks into a sort of domestic puppy dog.  My intention was to characterize the man causing the shadow of possessing great power and influence to cause such a shift in the wolf.

One of the comments I remember from class nailed it though:  that the message sort of failed because I needed the wolf to change more dramatically in order to get the point across.  I will remember that!

EDIT: I forgot to mention how impressed I was with the talent and the quality of the work of my classmates.  The ideas they had were so cohesive and fluidly executed and finished, that I became really self-conscious of mine by the time it went up for critique.  If I'm going to be confident about my work, I think I'm going to have to show something a little more polished next time...