The (Preliminary) Finale

After days of working on our practice task and getting all-too-familiar with the eerie basement of the hospital/insane asylum look-alike that is our school, the film opening ultimately reached its final, not-the-best-but-it-will-do-for-now form:

Our attempts at pleading to the forces of the universe to not have to present our (the opposite of) oscar-worthy preliminary task in class were unsuccessful but we persevered.