Preliminary Seaquence Evaluation.

My "Fed The Fishes" Preliminary task went rather well, there are a few strong points about it, but there are many more weak points, and areas for improvement, all of which will be taken into consideration in the pre-production and production stages of my main piece.
There was a fair amount of humour in my "Fed The Fishes" task, and the people who viewed the sequence said that although this was a good thing, it did not make up for the amount of flaws with the sequence, which I will outline later on in this blog.
there are a whole host of problems with my preliminary task, and also a few potential areas for improvement. one of these problems is the quality of the actors which I used during the filming process, which was pretty poor to be honest. I had a tight schedule to follow, and a minimal amount of time to get all of the filming done,  and so I decided to use the members of my group as actors, in order to get the task done by  the deadline, a little over a week after starting the task. I no know that this was a bad decision, and should have found the time to look for students with a higher degree of acting skill, in order to create a quality piece of film, which is something I can apply to my main piece, and make sure that is as good as possible.
another way in which I went wrong on this task was the position of the camera. because I did not have a wide angle lens for the camera we used, we filmed almost everything with the camera tilted sideways by 90 degrees to fit the all the elements of the shots in. what we didn't realise at the time is that it would be impossible to shift the framing around and keep the shots the same size when it came to the editing stage, which meant that not all of the shot could be seen on the vertical axis, and that there were thick black borders on either side of the shot. so from that problem, i know that when filming our main piece  the camera needs to be kept in its upright position in order to be able to edit as quickly as possible, and without experiencing too many problems.