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

As I film maker I feel I have developed in many ways, I have learnt many different skills and leant to be more independent. Doing my prelim helped me because it allowed me to work on basic key skills which would be helpful for my final product. Skills such as continuity and match on action.

Specific skills, such as, shot reverse shot, I didn’t use as there wasn’t any speaking in my opening, but learning this skill during my prelim means that if I had wanted to, or ever do want to use it I feel confident in doing so. I used the 180 degree rule as best I could, but because I only had one character again I didn’t really find I used it that much. I think that I used the match on action well and I cut between my main characters actions well, if I hadn’t done the prelim task I wouldn’t have been able to do this as well.

As for planning I did most of my planning last minute and then had to re plan again as plans fell through, because I planned last minute I think I was slightly unorganised and if I had planned it better I would have gotten more footage. I think my story board was good though and I put details of what I wanted the camera to do. I wouldn’t have known how to do this if it wasn’t for the prelim task either because the people I worked with showed me how to do it correctly.

I think my opening is OK. I think it suits its target audience and because its something new and not really done before people will be interested in it.  I think my narrative it pretty good and I chose an appropriate person to play my main character. To improve my opening I would have liked to record more footage just so that I could have made it longer, maybe a few shots of the ‘victim’ I had a few ideas on how to do this but struggled to get any of them to look right therefore I left them out. I would perhaps have just filmed on one high quality camera instead of one good and one not so good camera, as this would have saved on time where I could have been editing. I think another weakness to my opening would have been the two mistakes I mentioned earlier, the continuity error and the fact people are stood in the background. Although both are very small and not obvious errors I know they are there and I would prefer them not to be. I also think if I’d have had more time I would have made some of the sound effects louder, for instance at one point in the opening there it a heartbeat and some viewers commented that you can’t hear it that clearly.