Preliminary Task : Feed The Fish

Some aspects of the preliminary task were adequate, and somewhat plausible to fit my needs. And a part of that was the camera angles that were use. We used various camera angles that were all suited and related to the scene that was being filmed. During the conversation scene between the boss and the employee we used a reverse shot between each of them, to make it stand out as a normal conversation. Albeit- even in this case we stumbled across some problems. When filming we should have stuck to the 180 degrees rule, this would level out the eyes within the shot, if we used our time more efficiently then this could have easily been resolved.

Unfortunately, one big problem with this preliminary task is that the editing was not to the utmost good level. There were times within the editing where some parts messed up pretty badly. For example, our transitions were unprofessional and blank. They contained no combined transitions between two intercepting clips, but rather a simple lined up clip-after-clip, meaning a shot would end and start straight over at another clip without a transition between the two. I believe this was due to not using our time as efficiently again, and if we had planned it more within the pre-production we could have handled it well and this wouldn't have been a problem. Another thing that could have been improved is the position of the camera angle that took a drastic turn in the editing. We found that some clips were filmed, rather than being landscape like most of our clips, they were portrait. And this means when we wanted to rotate them and put them on a landscape view, there would be these rough black edges at the sides of the clip because of the rotation by pixels between the two different coordinate axis.

In conclusion I think that we could of done a better job, if we took more time filming and editing to get rid of the problems stated above, but considering that this is the first filming task it allowed us to make mistakes so that we can learn from them.  For example the 180 degree rule is very important and must be filmed correctly.