Foundation Portfolio Self- Assessment on Feed the Fish

Foundation Portfolio Self- Assessment on Feed the Fish

In order to complete this task we were given a sheet of paper which contained a script and the main words in which we had to incorporate into the film were ‘feed the fish’. My group was myself, Aaron, Agata and Tom.

When filming ‘feed the fish’ we had some problems with actors not being there and clip’s being lost. This gave us a minor set back when trying to complete the task on time. Luckily we managed to complete it but I feel that it wasn’t to the best of my ability of which this was done.

The effects and transitions from each clip did not suit what was happening. They should have been straight cuts from one scene to the other. We tried to add effects in like dissolves and fades almost. These didn’t suit what was happening as the dissolves are normally to show a long length of time passing. A page flip effect was also used which looked wrong and shouldn’t have been put in. If we were to do this again I would make sure that straight cuts were used to flick from shot to shot and if effects were needed to be used then I would make sure they were put into the right place.

When clipping different parts of the shots, we didn’t put much time into doing this. For example when the character walks through the door and we focus in on the hitch sign the door shuts and then when we flick to the shot where the character is walking through the door from the other side we see the door shut again. This means that we didn’t edit or clip the different shots to allow them to fit together and work properly.

Good parts about our feed the fish were the zoom in to the sign of HITCH on the door. This gave the sign a good effect and made the audience focus on it rather than the rest of the door.

Using different camera angles when filming also was a good part of our production. We chose different angles to film from to get the most out of what was happening. We did shots from above the characters watching one hand a book over to another. This gave it a good effect by showing the importance of the passing over and the book itself.

Overall I feel I contributed to this task well as I filmed the shots and also contributed to editing the sequence. Even though the editing could be improved and the use of effects should be understood before using them next time, I feel that we did do well during this task. Next time improvements would be on the final part of the production, so the editing and the clipping. I would give us a 5/10 for the completed product.