Evaluation 7:

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

Looking back at our preliminary task we can see how much of an improvement we have made and how far we have come with filming and editing our clips. It is clear to the audience that we have become more confident with using different styles and techniques. When we look back at our preliminary task we can see the faults in which we had made and if we had to redo the task we would be able to make it a lot better and improve on the editing skills and the shot types, if we compare this with our final opening scene it is quite clear that we have improved and we have learnt from our mistakes. Personally i think our preliminary task is quite good considering we had done this at the start of the year and we had little knowledge on how to change up the shot types. The differences between the two are things such as location, types of shots and different scenes; although we could have made it better if we had more time to plan it and decide what type of shot types we had but considering little times we did have i think it worked out quite well. We didn't have a choice where we did the preliminary task because we were in the school building and we were very limited on where we could go to film. This is also why our shots were quite limited because we couldn't use the environment to our ability, which also suggests it makes our clip quite unrealistic. We also had to make the preliminary task on the title 'What are you doing here?' which also made it very limited as we could only do it on one genre where as for our opening scene we could choose what genre we wanted which made it easier to plan for. It made it very difficult to come up with a script with such a limited amount of time which suggests why we messed up on some occasions. 

We ended up using trial error which showed us really how inexperienced we really were. Although this was due to the little time we had to learn what to do and how to edit. We had only been doing the course for a few weeks which suggested why we were so weak and not as confident as we could have been. One of the main things we had to learn whilst doing this task was shot reverse shot rather than film directly in front of the actors face, this made the preliminary task effective because it shows the audience the perspective of what they are seeing. When editing we realised there was a little pause between the characters speech which made the task look staged rather than smooth.

We used the conventional camera techniques in our preliminary task, such match on match action and shot reverse shot to make our preliminary task as realistic as possible and practise our skills for the first time. I think that match on match action is the most effective shot we used as it showed our camera and editing skills throughout the shot. In the two different clips we saw that we used the 180 degree rule more in our preliminary task rather than in our opening two minutes. This may have happened because we have improved our skills and instead of doing things in which we were advised to do. I believe the preliminary task boosted our confidence and made us closer as a group. Without the preliminary task I don't think that our opening two minutes would have gone as well as it did because we would not have had the time to learn or create a piece before hand.