How the preliminary task helped me with my opening title sequence:

Before my group and myself began creating our films, we carried out various types of research and practiced our camera techniques by carrying out the preliminary task, "Feed the Fish." When producing our preliminary task we planned out all aspects of what we needed to prepare as if we would when making our final projects. I learnt techniques such as zooming in and out on actors however I found it hard tracking in and out of a desired shot. I also learnt how important it was not to move any props or alter the setting dramatically as something as minor as this has a great impact on editing and cutting shots. It is obvious when collecting random clips that the mis-en-scene has been modified, it doesn't look effective but instead appears unproffesional. When filming our "Feed the Fish" task we decided cutting shots has a greater effect and was a prefrence in contrast to tracking. Especially as the genre I selected is a thriller, cutting shots was more appropriate. The short sharp movements of cutting seemed to relate to a thriller, compared to a drifting tracking motion that seems less thrilling because of the subtle action of the camera.

Robyn Bostock