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

After finishing our preliminary task I through that I was fairly confident on what skills we would need to use when it came to our final task. From our preliminary task I wanted to improve upon three areas, which were shot sizes, media terminology and knowledge of editing. I believe that from this task I have developed a more of an understand of how important it is to use a variety of different shot sizes in any scene you see in a film, after not having enough shot sizes and having to go back and improve on this area, it made a massive improvement to our overall opening sequence. With the help of other media lesson I believe that I have made a big improvement on my knowledge of media terminologies, for example I was able to understand the process of how a film is made and how its moves though the different stages and companies. This was most important in our pre-production tasks when thinking about, how well our film would do if it was to be released and what kind of audience would our film best most suited to and would bring in the most profit from looking at box office records.

Finally I feel that my knowledge in editing has made the biggest improvement overall, I think this is down to the fact that I was more involved with the editing of our opening sequence whereas before I took a step back as I had never experienced using the equipment before. When putting together our shots from filming I think I had a better understanding what shots when together and how others just didn’t fit, which meant we could create an opening sequence to a high quality.

Even through from this screen shot of the production company doesn’t show my knowledge of media institutions, I now have a much better knowledge on what role the company would have in the making of the film.

In addition to the above, i think that i have learnt one very important skill which is being able to create an initial idea of what you would like to produce and being able to carry out the project and keeping the idea consistent. As a group we all shared the same ideas which meant it was easier to keep to the project. This can be seen from looking at our pre-production documents and then our final project. Even though we had to re film some of our shots we kept the script and storyboard Constant throughout our project.