Looking Back At Your Preliminary Task, What Do You Feel You Have Learnt In The Progression From It To The Full Product?

Since my preliminary task I have learnt an endless amount of skills. To begin with, I have learnt how to use a wide range of equipment and programmes that come in hand all the time when creating/editing a film. I've thought about the target audience a lot as well which is key for making a success full film because you want it to appeal to a certain group to make it popular. In my preliminary task it was very basic and had no effects or transitions used, whereas in the final product now has a number of them such as fade in and black and white. Live type is one skill that I have found very successful and would defiantly use next time I film something, because it makes the film look much more professional and appropriate. Moods and atmospheres are a really good thing to think about when creating a movie, due to the audience may get bored watching a film, so by creating a mood or atmosphere gets them involved in the film and they will then indulge themselves into their chair as there mind focuses on the film and nothing else. To add to what I have learnt I would like to mention planning and questionnaires the public because me and my group had a multiple of plans, so we discussed together and came up with what we wanted to do. Once we had done this, we would then ask the public what they would like, for example 'where would you like a thriller to be based at' and then using these results we would go with what the public decided to attract them.


If I could go back to my preliminary task now, I would defiantly make my continuity editing a lot more effective by editing, I would use a more wide range of camera angles such as panning, extreme close-up and a distribution shot which is great for setting a mood. Titles would be really good at the start or end of the film, and I would use live type for this as it has worked really well on my thriller. Also I would possibly use transitions between some shots to improve the flow of the clip. Finally I would use a much better destination than the school, because I learnt that there are many really good filming spots local and the school is very boring and dull, making the film look tacky and unprofessional.