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

When my group began with the prelim we realised how difficult filming is actually going to be. There was so much to consider especially match on action, 180degree rule and most importantly continuality. When my groups prelim was finished we realised that we did not give all out attention to continuality so it was easy to spot the mistakes. In our main task on the other hand we concentrated so much on continuality and it was all correct and no mistakes there. From our prelim I learnt how hard it actually is to edit and film and how much time it takes up for just minutes worth of footage. We thought our prelim took long to edit but then the main task was even longer everything had to be perfect in our eyes so a lot of time was spent on the editing and filming. As a group we all realised how much we would have to be patient with filming as a lot of misshapes happened in our prelim so we knew a lot more was coming in our main task.

From audience feedback as a group we could see that our main task was a lot better than our prelim. From our feedback of 16 questionnaires I can see that seven people said that the camera shots, angles and our editing was much improved in our main task. Six feedback forms said that the storyline was much better in our main task and that our main task was much more meaningful. One feedback form said that continuality was a major improvement in our main task. The other questionnaires were not filled in on this question we asked them. Me myself I think that my groups main task was much better than our prelim as we tried different shots and angles in our main task we thought hard about our shots and angles so that they were completely different than our prelim and shots that other groups may not have used like a dolly shot.

In my main task I would have liked to improve the plot if I had time I think that we put to many different scenes into two minutes of our film. I could see that this would have been confusing to the audience once I had finished editing so there was no time to go back and change anything. Also I would have improved the editing and made it run more smoothly than it did. From our audience feedback the question we asked was ‘what would you improve in our coursework?’. the feedback that we received was that editing was the main thing that the audience would change so that the product would run better. Also the feedback showed us that the audience would improve the plot in the product. As I said before that I knew it would be quite confusing to follow for the audience as unlike us they did not no the whole story that we as a group was trying to show. The other thing mentioned by the audience to improve was the sound quality. As we were filing outside on a winters night it was hard to get the sound levels where we wanted of the camera as they picked up sound so easily. The wind was very high that day which made it so hard to get sound levels to a high quality. If improving my piece I would try and pick a night that the wind was not so bad or find a location that the wind was blocked by maybe buildings so it would not interfere with the camera.