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

After looking back over our preliminary task and then comparing it to our finished thriller opening, we noticed that we had made many mistakes and that our filming is now of a better quality compared to our preliminary task.

 Looking back at our storyboard that we have created, we have followed all of the initial shots that we wanted to do. But when coming to actually filming some of the shots there were things obstructing and making it harder for us to do it how we initially wanted for example, we couldn't film the opening scene to our thriller as we were very limited in the places that we could use a knife as we can't carry knifes around in public areas. Also getting to our initial shoot location was challenging as it was only accessible by car and getting transport to take us there was near impossible.
So as a result of this we had to change and adjust the shots so that it would look as good as we could make them look.

Sound was also a problem for us as the camera had very bad audio quality after listening over our preliminary task so we had to remove the sound as the quality was so distorted. So this left us to make the sound through things such as garage band which took us more time than expected. It was a challenge for us to make some music as none of our group has knowledge in music and how to construct music on garage band.

Another thing that we could see from looking back over our preliminary task we could see that the quality of our filming needed improving as we could see from the footage that the shots weren't that smooth. We had to practice shots to make things such as zooming in and out look much smoother to give us the effect that we wanted. To make sure that our shots were perfect we filmed them time and time again until we feel that we got a shot that was to the standard in which we wanted.

When completing our thriller opening and comparing it back to our preliminary task i feel we have learnt a lot from the progression of developing our thriller opening, we have made our edits look smoother with less sharp cuts, leading the next shot in smoothly and we have learned a lot more different editing techniques to make our shots look how we want them to. Not only our editing has got better i believe our group have also got better in filming as you can see from our preliminary task the shooting was very rough and at stages very shaky compared to our finish thriller opening.

By George.