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

Whilst making my preliminary piece, I learnt how to use a camera, and editing software using an Apple iMac. This was obviously important because it was necessary for all of our group to know how to use the software and camera, as we needed to be able to function still as a group even if someone was absent. I also learnt that both filming and editing are much more long and arduous tasks than they sound. We also learnt a few filming rules and how not to break them. For example the 180 degree rule, shot counter shot, and match on action. Obviously we had all improved by the time we came to making our main task, so we had a clearer idea of how to do things. Compared to our prelim, our main task was much more focused. This was because we had to pay attention to conventions of genre and have a deeper narrative. We were also better at editing by the time we came to making our main task. We were much more able to recognise what was wrong, or what was missing and how to solve it. This means we were much more efficient in our editing process, as we had clearer objectives in what we needed to do with our product. We were also much more brave with using the camera, so our shots turnt our better as we had some really nice angles and shots in our product. Given the chance, I would improve certain things about our coursework. For the main task we didn't really utilize our tripod. We thought the mobility was better without it. However this did cause some bits of our footage to be quite shaky. It wasnt too bad, some bits were worse than others, but for a really steady shot we should have used tripod. The only problem with using tripod is that some of our shots had to be really low or high due to our set and actors. Also, we could have found actors that would have played parts better in our film, despite not being judged by acting it would still help. Also we could have planned out or time better to give us spare time, should anything need changing. Overall, we have all improved vastly from our prelim, and it shows when watching our products.