Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

EVALUATION QUESTION 7

Preliminary

In our Preliminary task I learned that the basic shots we did, we not even be anywhere near to what we had to do in our main task. However, I do feel now that it was slightly worse than our main task in its simplicity, and the acting felt and was incredibly bland, since we’ve become more professional and I feel we took the main task far more seriously than our Preliminary, mainly because we had our own ideas and the freedom to achieve what we actually wanted to do, Overall however I still feel that despite everything, our Preliminary set us up well for the main task because of the standard we set ourselves, the bar was met, and now we could try and out-do even ourselves.

Difficulties in the Group?

Difficulties in the group were not hard to come by, getting off task was incredibly easy, and distractions were a constant. All being people who find most things funny, we often joked around and like i said previously, distractions were not hard to find. However we battled through and produced a good piece of work. We also found hard was trying not to break continuity despite trying to keep that specific thing to a high standard we forgot about it multiple times, resulting in having to refilm a lot of different shots which I found tiring and annoying at times.

Planning

Planning for the preliminary was less stress than the main task, we scribbled down quickly a storyboard and went away with shooting. However, sticking to the storyboard was not always easy, as new (better) ideas were thrown around quite a lot. So we discipline ourselves and stuck to the storyboard, i’ve learned from doing this that sticking to your planning is the most important part of creating a successful edit/film/cut etc. Again why we tried to make our planning far better in the resultant main task, which I personally think it was.

Camera

The shots used in the preliminary were less advanced than that of in the the Main task, We used basic shots and made a basic short film. After learning the basics, we wanted to use those in the long term and remember key factors, and thats why I personally felt that our main task was produced to a high standard one in which we are extremely happy with. We tried different angles and new ways of filming so that we could achieve a unique way of filming. Our Preliminary was nothing too fancy but we are still happy with the outcome.

Editing

Editing was our strongest point in the preliminary, we had quick cuts a lot and tried to utilize as many shots and edits as we could think of. We used quick, low key music to build suspense this made our piece more visually pleasing, despite being a 2 minute clip about a man handing 25p for a 50p. Nethertheless, upon using our edits in our preliminary, we learned so much about how to create a good piece of work, and I feel we did that in both tasks.