Evaluation Question 7

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

I have learnt to use the camera better than I did in the preliminary task, even though as stated before we had technical difficulties with the camera and therefore had to result in using a hand-held camera, this made filming our opening sequence a lot easier than the preliminary this is because in our opening sequence all shots are point of view so the hand-held camera went well with what we are trying to create, whereas with our preliminary task the camera had to be stationery, this gave us the chance to change our range and style of shots we had originally chose.

When editing the preliminary task I found it a lost easier as it was a very basic quick sequence that we filmed which made it easy to do match-on-action shots and the camera was stable for every different scene we did. I believe that the preliminary task was a lot easier to edit because there were less screen shots and detail to it unlike the opening sequence. The music that we had chose for the preliminary task had no relevance what so ever to what was said in it, it was just to help us get used to editing and how to put a soundtrack in if we wanted one however with our opening sequence the background music that we had chose complimented the action in the sequence.

For the preliminary task there was no script, storyboard or planning it, where as our opening sequences had weeks of preparation, scripts were made, storyboards and planning, things were changed, ideas were moved around, got rid of, new ones were put in place or mixed with others, we even changed things on instinct as we was filming that we thought would look better through actually shooting it then and there, and knowing what the new idea and shot would show better than the previous one. Even at the final editing stage things were still changed, things were cut out and a scene we had filmed later on was moved to the beginning of the sequence as it looked better. This helped us get the final product that we have, the planning helped everything to run smoothly and it was also a structure so we knew exactly what we had to do step by step so we knew in our heads what it should look like and so that our sequence would plan out how we intended from the start.