Evaluation Question7

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

I feel that I and the rest of my group have improved greatly from our prelim to our full product. Our prelim was a great way of introducing us to the basic equipment such as the handheld camera and editing software. When filming our prelimwe spent alot of time going back and watching the footage we had just shot to check that it was right which cost us alot of time and so when it came to filming the full product we didn't replay the shots so much unless we really needed to and so time was not wasted that way, so we learnt from that.

We also learnt from a continuity mistake that we made in the prelim, as in the prelim one shot of rachel had a coat stand in the background and then when we returned to her again from the same angle the coat stand had gone. This was because it was in the way of the staff in the cafe and so we moved it however we dd not realise that it had been so much in the shot and she continuted filming without re shooting the shot.This taught us to pay more attention to the surroundings for our filming of the main product and to be more aware of everything in shot so that this continuity did not occure again.

These are just two examples of the major things that the prelim taught us and that we developed and corrected in the making of our full product. We also learnt alot more in the progression such as how the efficiently plan ahead for the project as well as the basic priciples to what makes a successful film.