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

For our preliminary task we did very brief story boarding, for our main media product we changed this and instead we did a very in depth story board, for the prelim we didn't refer to the story board that much but instead we focused on ideas that popped into our head this meant that the process we went through when filming wasn't very efficient at all and it took much longer than it should have. However for our main media product we refereed back to our story board every shot, this meant that our filming was done within in a day and we made sure that we took all the shots we wanted and we mixed up some of the camera angles to give some different shots to play around with when it came to editing. For our final product we were very heavily reliant on actors and we struggled with actors as we had many people pull out at the last minute, however we managed to get hold of two actors and they were able to act and do a reasonable job, compared to our preliminary where the actors were some of the boys in the media group which meant we couldn't be let down. When it came to editing for our preliminary we were still relative novices which meant we kept the editing as simple as possible, when it came to the final product we used online tutorials on youtube to help us learn the tricks of the trade which helped make it easier to edit, it meant our final product looked more professional and we could address our target audience. We were able to add in trim and cross dissolves which helped make the short film flow much more easily.
For our final product we add sound to the film to add more of a professional edge we also used more complex shots like high angle we were able to do this because we had a heavy duty tripod which was easily extendable and we could adjust the legs on the tripod to make the camera level.

We believe that our end product has moved on immensely since our first attempt for a prelim, we were able to stick to the 180 rule and we were able to include speech. The continuity for our film worked especially well this was down to the way we directed it and the story board which we stuck too. Some flaws in our filming may have been that the zoom was used to frequently, in major hollywood films the zoom is hardly used this is because they are able to use trackers and the cameras are on long booms that are extendable, if we had a larger budget we would have been able to block out these faults and made the end product look more realistic and professional.