Main Task - Evaluation - Question 7

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

I feel since the preliminary task we have learnt a lot more about the different technologies used in making a film that we have become a lot more confident in doing so. I think as none of us were acting in the main task, unlike the preliminary task, we all had a chance to film and decide on the different shots and angles used. This made use more confident in using the camera and knowing how to work it. In the preliminary task we didn’t use the camera very well and it seemed more like a homemade video, where as our main task actually looked like the opening of a film. It was much better having Sophie Todd acting in our main product as she is an A-Level drama student so she knew how we wanted the character to act and behave and she played the character very well to how we wanted her to come across to the audience, whereas in the preliminary task two of us out of our group, me and Hayley, acted in the film, whilst Rosie filmed, this wasn’t so successful as this was the first time we had acted and weren’t used to trying to act like another person. Because of this our preliminary task wasn’t filmed as we pictured it in our heads. We wanted to create a horror film for the preliminary task but as we couldn’t act it changed to more of a comedy.

The Following - Preliminary Task Link

The biggest improvement I think we could make was our time management as we left our filming to very late on which meant us having to put in a lot of work to get the editing done really well, as we had a lot of time for the editing our film did end up a success.

The shots and angles in our main task compared to our preliminary task show a much wider variety. I think this is down to the research we did for our main task. As we had much more time to plan and research for our main task than we did for our preliminary task, this meant we had a clear understanding or what shots our film would consist of and were able to plan ahead to make sure we had this variety. I’ve learnt that you need a lot of time for planning and research if you want your film to be successful so then when you come to filming it can be done much quicker and smoothly.

First Born - Main Task Link

We spent a lot more time on Final Cut Pro for our main task than we did for our preliminary task so we also learnt the amount of time you need to spend on this software to make the editing in the film perfect and to be able to use all the different effects it has to offer to created more of an interesting film.

Overall I feel I have learnt a lot since our preliminary task as our film was a much bigger success than our preliminary task and the different technologies I have learn in helping to make this happen with my group.