Feed the Fish Self Evaluation

After working on The Feed the fish preliminary sequence there were many improvement that we became aware of that we would need to think more carefully when it came to our actual coursework.

There were good points:

• All of our cuts were smooth
• The close up shot on the chair worked really well
• The high and low angels we used to create status looked good
• The ending was as humorous as we intended

There were criticisms:                  

• The zoom in the hallway didn't work 
• The dialogue used needed to be longer
• We could have experimented with shots more

Overall we did really well with our preliminary sequence, we did well with the continuity making sure that the shots went together smoothly and didn't overlap or not match. We did have a problem with the filming as it got quite dark quite quickly it made some shots darker or less visible than others, it also meant that some shots had to be binned due to that. If we had more time we would have gone back and re filmed to improve continuity. 

When we were filming inside this didn't present any issue we managed to get quite a few good shots and though that for the dialogue the angles used would help portray status. We did also try to do a tilt to show that the thinking about the fish put the character off balance but that didn't work as well as we would have liked it to. The shots we did use were very basic and we didn't really use a variety whilst filming and this is something we will try to improve upon in the actual coursework as the shots didn't really help convey the urgency of the situation.

The main issue we encountered was the dialogue being to brief, this wouldn't have been an issue but unfortunately somewhere along the line we lost a piece of footage and therefore that limited how long we could make the dialogue. I think otherwise we would have used to dialogue to create more of an effect. Other than this most of out editing was very smooth and all of the cuts lead on to each other quite well. We tried to do a range of different cuts but I would like to use more experimental editing like inter-cutting during the actual coursework.

The shot that worked best was the close up we did of the chair as it showed we were thinking about more technical aspects of our editing and how it could help the end product look more effective. The close up also showed how well we used continuity in this sequence.