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

	PRELIMINARY TASK	MAIN TASK
THE SOPHISITCATION OF PLANNING AND PREPARATION	-Quite simplistic. -Took one day to plan. -We were working off of someone else’s storyboard and therefore didn’t have much decision making to do. -Actors and props were gathered through opportunity on the day/ the location was given to us as was equipment. -Had little freedom/responsibility.	-Very in-depth/detailed/ complicated -Took several weeks to plan actors/location/equipment/props etc. -Working at a large scale of production- we had freedom and responsibility. -We created a file in order to insure that everything was organised from equipment to permission of use for the location.
DEVELOPMENT OF FILM MAKING SKILLS	-Testing to see if we remembered our tutorial on cameras and filming. -We learnt to use a storyboard however it was not our original story. -I feel, what I learnt, mostly, from the task is how to behave on set. -I also learnt that it was good to listen to everyone's ideas.	-I learnt that you can tell a story without dialogue.  Through filming. -Filming skills had developed from classes by the time we reached storyboarding and therefore helped us come up with many ideas which we were very happy with. -I learnt that the communication between the actors and the filming crew is very important.
USE OF CAMERA	-Not very interesting/original shots just basic; wide shots, ECUs, CUs etc. -I learnt that preparation is vital for interesting/good quality shots. -Limited in shot production as we were working from a storyboard which was not created by us and we had to follow it. -We worked slowly at achieving shots as were reasonably new to cameras. -I learnt that the angle of the camera and eye-line is very important in terms of status.	-We had time to think, intelligently about our shots and new a lot more about camera shots on the day so time was not an issue. -I realised the importance of seeing the location, first-hand, before filming as some shots from our story-board were not possible to achieve. -We put the skills we had learnt from class into making original shots. -We used underwater shots which we had never done before but was a lot of fun and worked very well. -We were also aware of the importance of such things as continuity and the 180 degree rule.
DEVLOPMENT IN THE USE OF SOUND	-The element of sound in filming was new to us and therefore very basic. -The only sound which was in this task was diegetic; the dialogue and the ambient sound in the room. -The lack of attention payed to sound really lowered the quality of the film. This helped me to understand the importance of sound.	-Sound was much more complex as we used such programmes as Sound Track Pro. (STP) -We used STP to sometimes take out the ambient sound of the room as at times it was distracting. -We replaced some sounds filmed on day with recorded sound from STP to create a better effect e.g. the breathing -We also used STP to create non-diegetic sounds e.g. the eerie drone music and drums.
DEMONSTRATING YOUR ABILITY TO MASTER NEW TECHONOLOGY	-We were introduced to Final Cut Pro. To put our footage together. However we were not very creative here as we were just being shown the ropes. -Wasn’t very well edited and looking back I have many ideas which I could have used to make the sequence better. -We didn’t have much time to edit this task and therefore quality wasn’t as good as it could have been.  There was no fluidity; the cuts were very jumpy.	- We were reminded of Final Cut Pro and were introduced to Sound Track Pro and learnt to use After Effects for the title (but very basically). -The programmes which we were introduced to in this task gave our media sequence a much better quality. -Our experience with Final Cut Pro, previously, was very useful as we could no use it creatively. -We had much more time to do the editing in this task than the previous task and therefore added to the quality of the sequence as cuts were made more fluid.