Preliminary project

Our preliminary project was titled 'feed the fish', and was a short flm. We wanted to take this task header as a metaphor, and have the 'fish' as a code word for somebody who the two key characters within the clip, were being opressive towards, and holding captive. We wanted to use a wide range of shots and create an interesting variety, aided by smooth continuinty editing. I think we achieved this goal, for some of our shots for instance : the high angle shot of a photograph being slammed onto the table and passed over to the second in command, the photograph was of a small child and gave an insight into the idea that these two characters are involved in dodgy affairs relating to kidnapping and child abuse, the photo was circled and labeled clearly, in red the word 'victim' - used to connote danger and horror. The shot created the idea that they had an enourmous amount of power and status over their victim, and the focus purely on this 'new task' and not the other two characters, depicted that their relationship purley revolved around 'work' and immoral activities. I think we created a seemless eiditing effect when we flipped between the two characters sat at the desk, we initially filmed both characters reading their entire script on two seperate shots and then fitted them together after filming. However certain elements that we didn't ulter created an unrelistic effect, for instance the eye contact wasn't coherent and certain objects could be seen that were not meant to be, for example the 'victim photograph' could be spotted before it had even been handed out yet. My favourite part of our film, was the flash back, giving an indication at what we truely meant by 'feed the fish', we edited this to make it black and white, creating the sense it was in the past. Overall I was disapointed that during the  interveiw, we didn't use a greater range of shots, which would have made it alot more interesting and dynamic effect.