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

Our preliminary task was a very basic challenge. It introduced us to editing on the Macs and using items such as our storyboard for filming purposing and using the cameras but it was very basic. Progressing from this, we built on our knowledge of the Macs and the editing software that was available and some of the tricks we could do with this, such as syncing up the gun sound effects and the music. We also learned how to create titles and fades which we ended up using effectively in our final project. One of the things that we though we did very well in our preliminary task was match on action shots. The part where Xiangyu Ge jumps over the chair and Ben Perry puts his hand up and then we change the shot from behind Xiangyu to behind Ben and the two parts matched very well. 

This made it very easy for doing such things like the initial gun shot where the agent pulls out the gun, puts the magazine in, aims and then fires. 

Some things that we did not have to do in the preliminary task was think about different social groups. The preliminary task was just two teenagers walking into a room, sitting down and exchanging dialogue where as our final project is an opening to a feature fiction film. When we made our preliminary task, there was a particular transition where the shot changes only very slightly from looking at one actor to an over the shoulder still looking at the same character. 

These two shots are 1 second apart. Me and Seb weren't happy with this shot and made sure that when we made our final task, we didn't make small mistakes like this that could make it look less than satisfactory at times.


Overall I think that I have learnt many new things and also built on a lot of previous knowledge that I gained from doing the preliminary task. Doing the preliminary task and reflecting back on it helped me a lot to see what I didn't want to do right and left out completely, highlighting mistakes that I really shouldn't of made in the first place. I feel that it helped me make the right decisions in the final project that I wouldn't of done otherwise.