Question 7

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

When we started our preliminary task, it took us ages to think of something to do, and even after we'd filmed it we thought we could of done better. Whereas with the thriller opening we felt that although swapping and changing our ideas throughout, we could achieve the look we wanted to put across. With the thriller opening we felt we had more of a starting point as it had to be a thriller, but with the preliminary task it could be literally anything, which is quite hard to think of unless you're full of great ideas.

I feel we have progressed by using a wider range of effects, and camera shots. We were also more prepared and eager to make our thriller opening much more successful than the preliminary task. In our thriller opening we developed our ability to keep the camera still while filming, and progressed with the 180 degree rule by not catching our shadows in the shots and making sure it doesn't look like our actor has swapped sides at any point.

When planning we made sure that with every idea we didn't just dismiss it if we thought it to be impossible. We all added to the idea and thoughts on location and how it could be done, rather than immediately saying its too hard and it couldn't be done. By using blogger it was so much easier to keep our ideas up to date and show our classmates our ideas, also if we wanted feedback it was easy for them to access our blogs and then get back to us on what they thought. Once we had our final thriller opening idea we tried to plan every detail as specifically as we could, however on the day there were little things we ad to decide on, such as how far away the camera would be and what angles would work best, but such as location and props we were prepared to go.