There was a number of strengths to our interpretation of the feed the fish script, first of all we start with a establishing shot which i think was effective, we used this to tell the audience the surroundings. In this establishing shot we also established a character. The character walks towards a door, as he gets closer we cut away to a different angle, a lot closer to the character and a slightly lower, we done this to show this character has some sort of power. Next we used match on action to see the character enter the corridor from a completely different view. This worked well in my opinion as well because it avoided jump cuts. Then the character is tracked, with the camera being hand held, this was a difficult shot to attempt but i feel we done well as it creates a sense of importance to the character, the camera follows the character because he is important. The next shot is the same character walking up the stairs, this is a high angle shot, we used this again effectively as it enables to the audience to see the surroundings as a whole, then there is a match on action with this character walking down the corridor, this is effective as it allows us to show the audience the whole settings rather than the confined space. As this Character walks we inserted an effect, which cuts out certain moments of the walk down the corridor, i believe this was particularly effective as it cuts time, it prevents the audience from seeing a boring walk down the corridor. There is another match on action here as the character enters the room, which changes to a pan, as we follow his movement and then he says "I'm here". Whilst he says this we specifically made sure we did not cut away as we wanted to create a sense of mystery about who this character was talking to. When we do cut to the second character, it shows a shot of him overlooking everything, suggesting he is powerful as he overlooks everything and everyone. Then the second character takes a seat, then we cut away to the first character taking his seat as they are speaking, the dialog here was particularly effective as it shows the power difference as the second character instructs the first to sit down. We then have a medium close up of the first character as he asks an important question, we elected to use this shot as it allows the audience to see the emotion/facial expressions on the first characters face. Then there is a shot with the powerful second character, who stands up and walks towards the other character stroking an object, the camera pans as we follow him. This is effective as it builds suspense as we want to know what is going to happen next.
If we was to re-do this piece of work we could improve by avoiding one jump cut that i noticed when watching it back. Something else we could work on is the length of our shots as the longer we are the more boring the shot gets, we should think about shorter shots in order to keep the audience's attention.
Also we should have prepared better, for example towards the end the lighting contrast was extreme as one shot was dark and one was a lot brighter even though we was in the same location and time. Finally a last improvement we could perhaps think about in future was the background noise, which was not supposed to be there. If there is no external noise it would work better allowing dialogue to be heard clearer as well as helping us to create the specific atmosphere.
