Task 7 Looking back at the preliminary task

Looking back at our preliminary task, I feel that I have progressed a lot comparing it to our final media product. Our final product was much more thorough and complicated than our preliminary task. This was because our prelim task consisted of a narrative which was the same as every groups narrative and only took us an hour to film and a week to edit. However, our final product was dissimilar in which we had to come up with a plot ourselves, which over the course of 6 weeks we wrote and filmed and another 3 to 4 weeks just to edit. Also, for our preliminary task we were given a storyboard, whereas for our final product we had to draw out our own storyboard.

My film making skills have also progressed since the preliminary task I feel much more familiar with editing etc. although because our thriller was filmed on camera phones I didn’t have much opportunity to develop my camera skills. We had more guidance with our preliminary task compared to our final product, because our prelim task was guidance towards knowing how to do our final product on our own.

Our final media product was very quick to film, because it was filmed on a sequence of camera phones and we were only allowed limited time to use the canteen to put together a rough cut of our film. In our prelim task, we used final cut but not to the extent that we used it in our final media product. In our thriller, we used final cut to add the title sequence throughout which listed the names of people involved with either making the thriller or the actors.

The sound we used in our prelim task compared to the sound in our final product are very different, this is because we had a set dialogue for our prelim task between two actors and nothing else. However, in our thriller we had unrehearsed dialogue between 3 different groups of people, this was so that it would seem the conversation was natural and real. We also used sound effects for the gun shots.

We were more concerned about the lighting in our preliminary task than we were with our thriller this was because we used 2 lights that were shone upon our actors to create shadows etc. However, because we were in a natural environment and wanted natural lighting we didn’t need to use any other light on top of the light already provided in the canteen.