Q7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

When we were first given the task to produce the preliminary task we hadn't quite understood the brief as we were excited to go ahead and film anything we could and we hadn't thought or properly planned out how to produce it. Since then our knowledge has been broadened and when it cam to creating our film we made sure to take extra time on the planning phase. We feel that our general knowledge in terms of editing has improved extremely in terms of snipping and adding audio to clips. Our overall knowledge when using the Mac has improved as before very few people within our group knew how to use the programmes effectively and now we all know how it should be used. For example, putting white or black fade transitions and slowing down the clip so the picture is delayed. We have also adapted our analytic skills when it comes to media products as we can know pick up on the smallest of details. Finally, as we all got a chance to film using the camera we have all developed skills when working with camera angels and understanding the importance of mise-en scene. Overall, we have learnt many different things from the preliminary task, however, the most important is the effectiveness of close ups which we used several times when filming our opening sequence. The close up was used very often because it was crucial to show emotion through facial expressions as we did not have any dialect in our opening so the facial expression told the story.