Long, Downward Shots of Jalan Teknika Selatan

These shots proved to be quite foundational to the opening of The Cats of the Faculty of Biology, and changed the feeling of the documentary, which featured many closeups and ground-level shots. It's a filmmaking trope that scene changes should always start with an exterior shot of the new location. This becomes especially visible when you binge a sitcom, which tends to have a limited number of locations, but in spite of how rote and repetitive it can make the structure of a show seem (and they certainly do become rote after a while), without it, viewers can just end up confused by the editing. There are other ways of indicating these scene changes—Frasier (1993), for example, famously used intertitles between scenes—but this is one simple technique to give users a quick break and contextualise what they're about to see. This brings us to The Cats of the Faculty of Biology, where after initially wrapping filming, we didn't really have a contextual frame for it. Going back and getting these shots, along with the zoom on the Animal House (which restored the intimacy of the opening monologue by approaching the location), gave us that.