Main Post 12.7 Question 7

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

I feel that I have made massive progress since my preliminary task. I have developed a strong confidence and under stance in the media world. I have always learnt new skills and developed my prior skills. When comparing the two together our prelim was very boring with not many shots used and a dull story. However in our main task we used lots of different shots. As a group we learnt from the preliminary task that we can show a lot of emotion through close up shots. So we added in lots of them into our Carlson section.

One thing I am very happy is with our editing and our spilt screen effect as it was one of the ideas I threw out in our group meeting. This was influenced from the hit show 24. It’s fitted in very well with the conventions of a thriller as it kept a fast paced story line going throughout. We experimented with a lot of different ideas to keep up the pace and stick to the thriller genre. Secondly I feel that in our preliminary task did not target an audience nor did it stick out in a crowd, in hind sight we used that knowledge and used it for inspiration into our main task, and we highlighted our audience early on in the process and made our opening stick out very effectivly.

Secondly I developed more confidence into my main production as I knew more about different shots, I also was not worried about continuity as I was in my preliminary task. I was not worried because it became like a second nature and I just knew subconsciously when and when not to remove things out of shot.
Overall I am happy with my main task however I was not happy with my preliminary task which shows I have developed through out the year and developed my knowledge in media