Feed The Fish - Pelimenary Task
The preliminary task was a practice for us to get used to the camera for the first time and to use editing software and to get aware of the types of effects and the transitions of video editing.The preliminary task was a part of compolsory work which was a piece of dialogue and script that we were given by our teachers to create using cameras and video editing software. The editing software that we used was iMovie on the Mac. When putting all of the clips together, I had some problems with iMovie and it decided to delete the final .mov file several times and the project file became corrupt which made the standard of our editing not as good as it could have been. I think that if us as a group had less problems with the software, the final .mov file of the pelimenary task would have been a lot better and probably contained more adjustments to make it run smoothly and fades and other video effects would have been added.
Us as a group decided to make it a "business" type genre hence the use of mis en scene of the choice of costume which were suits which were put onto both of the characters whom played by myself and Alex.
When editing the piece of video clips in iMovie, we had to cut down and trim the shots so they would flow smoothly and continuous rather than being jumpy and stuttery. Not only did we trim the clips down to run in order. Before taking the shots we decided to record the sound of traffic to place it over our video at the start where Daniel is walking with a phone. We also added a mobile phone sound at the start and make it in time with the characters (mine and alex's) motion.
Because we filmed on different days, the shoes changed in the clip which was one of the mistakes that we made but we had no time to do anything about it. It wasn't that easy to notice, but you can see the change when you look closely. I think that to make sure that the characters were wearing the correct costume and dresswear, it would have been easier to create a plan for our pelimenary task so we knew what to bring on that specific day, i.e the shoes and clothes that the characters were wearing.
If we were to do the preliminary task again, we would go somewhere more quiet where there was no classes to give it a more secret and suspicous view from the audiences perspective as the I play the character of a kidnapper, in a school wasn't really an ideal to film the piece as it was quiet a loud and distracting place and you could hear that in the background noise of the piece. Maybe we could have deleted the sound of the original clip and replaced it with music but that would not have been possible because we had to use dialogue.
