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

Looking back to our preliminary task I can say that we have definitely improved. Our preliminary task was lit by a single light in the college’s music room. We couldn’t work out the voice record at the time so we had to use the audio from the camera which meant we had all the back ground noises. Since then we learnt that using our own voice recorder’s where easier and we managed to improve our audio in our main task. In our prelim task we didn’t label our shots, this made it hard to edit as we had to go through all the clips to find the one we needed. We didn’t make this mistake in our main task. When filming our main film we made sure to create a sandwich with the video as we found we stopped filming too early in our prelim and made the editing feel jumpy and rushed. For the films themselves the prelim was rushed and didn’t have as much detail as the main film does. The characters didn’t have costume and the props where limited. We made sure that the characters in our film had the correct costume and appropriate makeup. We planned out the locations and casting to ensure we had everything we needed. We already had all the props we needed. We experimented more in our main task with more sound effects and editing. We used black out shots and reversed one shot. This made our film a lot more complex compared to our prelim. From all of this I’ve learnt that practicing does make perfect. The more you try and the more you experiment and play around and create new things the more inspiration you have in your film.