Looking back at the preliminary task, what do you think you have learnt from the progression from it to the full task?

Our group learnt quite a bit from doing the preliminary task that helped us in our main task. One thing especially that we learnt was the 180 degree rule. This enabled us to input a conversation into our opening scene, which gave a different dimension to the film. This rule enabled us to put shot reverse shots. We also had a taste on the type of cameras we will be using also the other type of equipment such as the tripod and the steady cam. By having this proir experience with the equipment I think that this enabled us to be make less time consuming mistakes when we were filming our main task.

Other things that we learned to improve from our preliminary task were things such as lighting, soundtrack and editing techniques. In our preliminary task, because we were filming in college amd had limited locations, our location didn't have the best lighting. In our main task, because we could choose out own location outside college, I think that we learned what places would work well, and what places wouldn't.

Also, in our preliminary task our soundtrack was quite bland and qliche. The main reason for this i think was because of the short time that we had to do the task, but with our main task, we were able to fully delve into garage band and we knew to stay away from the qliche overused sounds. With the editing side of things, I think from having that initial play around with the programme we learned quite alot of techniques to save time. Such as when we had to log and capture for our preliminary task we had all of our footage in order and each clip went toghether straight away, so little editing actually had be done. We tried to do the same in the main task because we knew that it would be better for us, so we could focus on the blog. Anlong with this keyboard shorcuts, the easily appliable effects and the title templates made editing the main task on the whole, a easy and enjoyable experience.

On our main task, we had to learn the hard way how important planning is the hard way. We innitially started filming on our initial idea. The story had gaps, we had no where enough footage, and the whole thing wasn't really believable. If we would of came up with a few ideas in the pleminary and really went in depth with solid storyboards, and shot list then we wouldn't of have to waste alot of time filming and idea that was no where near good enough, then having to think of a new one and re film everything for our main task.