Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have

learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

MARCIA RUMSEY

When editing our preliminary task we didn’t take as much time which resulted in actually hearing

the director at the beginning of one shot. However for our final piece we took extra care by

constantly watching it back. We also used more complex editing techniques (with the help of

online tutorials) than we did in our preliminary, mainly because of time constraints.

EDITING

When shooting our preliminary we did not know much about the camera (the Cannon D600). This is

clearly shown as a few shots are out of focus. However for our final piece we researched the

cameras and lenses available so we could use the most suitable one for our opening. There was also a few shaky shots in our preliminary task. However we overcome this in our opening by using a sturdy

tripod for all our shots whereas in our preliminary for a few shots we didn't use one.

CAMERA

In our preliminary task not only is there the sound of the director but there is also a lot of background noise. When making our preliminary we

didn’t really consider trying to erase this background noises or even add non diegetic sound. There is also a few points where the dialogue is quieter because of the position of the camera. However in our final piece we spent a long time

carefully selecting the music for our final piece. We also took time to decide what sounds to keep in and what to take out. We also had to decide what

sounds we wanted to replace with other sound effects.

SOUND

In our preliminary task we didn't even consider lighting. We used the normal light in the room

without setting up any artificial light. However in our opening, lighting featured heavily.

Therefore we spent a lot of time setting it up and even before we started shooting we did some test

shot to make sure we could create the right lighting we wanted.

LIGHTING