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

When I look back at my preliminary task I notice many mistakes that my group and I made, even in the first second of the film! I notice how my Actor’s (Curtis Cragg) head is cut out just before and after the first cut, this is a bad shot because it doesn’t show any focus for the audience. I also noticed how the shots were very slow and it became boring to watch, even though the footage was only 20 seconds long. However, I believe I have improved with my abilities to get successful shot’s and leave a firm focus on the actor during those shots, if I did not do this it could have resulted in a failed production.

            

'The headless shot'

I have also learnt many editing skills whilst using the Coral software that the school provide, such as; changing the colour of a shot, VFX (such as fades and flash’s) and of course shortening clips so that they are less boring for the audience. I believe that these skills have helped me earn more marks in the filming production because it will make it more interesting for yourself (the examiner) to view!

            

I also think that my team skills have improved drastically! During my group’s preliminary task I did dominate over the other so that the filming was done the way I wanted it to be done, I see now how this was a very insufficient way to filming because it caused the group too work slower. However, for my media production I gave me co-worker (Curtis Cragg) more room to breathe with the ideas of the film, and it has actually improved our final outcome.