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

I feel that I have developed as a film maker since filming the preliminary task. I have learned how to use a wider range of shots in my filming and I have improved as an editor. I have also learned how to use diagetic sounds to greater effect in our opening. This includes both diagetic and non-diagetic sounds.

                                         

Our preliminary product had no sounds at all so we changed that in our thriller opening. Our thriller opening contains diagetic and non-diagetic sounds. Also, our preliminary task wasn’t edited very well and there were mistakes in it. We changed this in our full product by spending more time editing it. Our preliminary product featured no transitions in between shots so we decided to use them for our thriller opening.

 We did feature a wide variety of shots in our preliminary task so we used that in our main product. Whilst filming the preliminary task, I learned how to use the 180 degree rule and the continuity rule. This helped us in the filming of our main product as it meant we got to use it to use it before going straight into the main product without using those rules. We also developed skills such as shot-reverse-shot and match on action shots.

Use of the 180 degree rule in our preliminary product.

We planned the shots in our main product by looking at what worked in the preliminary task and putting it into the main product. We also looked at what didn’t work and changed those aspects for the main product or just didn’t use them at all.