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

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

One of the main issues we faced when editing our preliminary task piece together was that we didn't film enough cutaway shots. This made the finished preliminary quite jarring to watch as the different shots didn't quite flow together as well as we would have liked, as the timing of the shots didn't correlate correctly with one another. As such, when we filmed the thriller opening, we made sure to film many cutaway shots from as many angles as possible to mitigate any issues we could face in editing the final piece together.

Since the preliminary task lacked any sort of sound, I felt that it didn't quite feel finished. The inclusion of diagetic sound, such as the sound of footsteps, and the non-diagetic sound, the soundtrack, added to the ambiance of the scene. The sound added an extra layer of complexity to an otherwise dull scene.

In our preliminary, we filmed each scene over and over until we had one clip that we were happy with and discarded the rest. The issue we faced from that was in one of the shots, background noise was quite audible which we did not notice at the time, and since we only filmed one clip of that scene, we had to work around the issue which took some time. We fixed this problem in the final piece by filming each scene several times so we had two copies of each scene that we were happy with so that if a similar problem arises, we would be able to use either clip.

Since we didn't use storyboards in the preliminary, we found that we had to re-film certain scenes as we didn't realise what we would need to make our storyline make sense. Apart from the obvious time constraints, we could have had problems with continuity (in the weather, clothing and the availability of the actors on another day). Since we made a storyboard for the thriller, we knew what shots we needed and where they would fitted together so there would be no need to re-film anything.

We tried to encompass a larger range of shot types into our final piece as our preliminary was limited to mostly mid-shots, mainly due to the small area in which we had to film. The location of where we filmed the final piece allowed us to film at different angles, and so our final piece uses a wider range of shot types than our preliminary, as well as panning and different types of transitions.

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