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

Development as film makers

Overall, we have greatly developed as film makers and we have obtained and developed many skills, these skills include:

Editing skills

Camerawork efficiency

Knowledge of sound

Leadership and teamwork skills

Preliminary Stengths

Our preliminary production did have strengths, some of these strengths included:

Strong narrative

Plot sequencing

Variety of shot types

No continuity errors

Preliminary Shortcomings

Our preliminary production did have shortcomings, some of these strengths included:

Lack of music

Lack of proper shot matched titles

How we built on the shortcomings of our preliminary

We developed as film makers in various specific skills from our preliminary task. One of these skills was camerawork; we learnt a great deal about camerawork from the process of filming our preliminary and in the filming process of our final production. The amount of knowledge we gained from the preliminary and the final production did in fact vary. In the preliminary task, it was near enough our first time majorly filming; we had knowledge on how proper video camera operate as none of us had handled one before and on top of this we used the Iphone 5C camera. Our first downfall was in fact towards the beginning of filming our preliminary, this was a silly error to make as well, this error was filming with the camera portrait instead of landscape therefore black outer bars are visible in the shots when viewed, obviously, after noticing this error which was after we had filmed the complete first half of the preliminary we had to go back and restart filming from the beginning. I think that the main reason we made this filming error was because of the fact that we filmed on a phone instead of a proper video camera, this is because generally, a video camera would already by default be positioned in landscape, the majority of cameras do not have a default camera mode that is in portrait.