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

I think that I have greatly improved from our preliminary task, my knowledge of the software are well as the film-making process has greatly improved and therefore the progression from the preliminary task to the full product has quite obviously improved.

Firstly, during pre-production of the preliminary task I found is quite hard to even come up with more than a few shot types, showing that my understanding of film-making has vastly enhanced and thus our film opening contained some much more challenging shots such as the tracking shot, in comparison to just a shot-reverse-shot which we completed in the preliminary task. Not much thought went into the location nor costume of our characters in the preliminary, in fact we used a classroom as a 'restaurant' and we just used actors that were either in our group or were just free in the time for filming after-school. Whereas, with the film opening we went through a lot more planning and made multiple storyboards in case the main tracking shot did not work out. Props for the preliminary were just things that we found lying around which we thought slightly would look like they would belong in a restaurant which we were trying to make from a classroom (?).

Overall, the amount of planning required for the preliminary task did not amount to what was required for the main task. Production took a whole day for the main film opening whereas we only spent around an hour on the preliminary as we only had a few shots to film, in comparison to the multiple close-up and attempts at tracking/pull-in shot in the film opening.