Evaluation question #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 biggest things i learned from my preliminary task was time management. I slacked a lot during the filming of it, as i went into filming without a specific script or film plan, I just had a general idea of what i wanted to film. After the filming was somewhat of a disaster with changing ideas, limited time to film and insufficient equipment, this helped tremendously with my final piece as i learned from my mistakes. For my final piece i planned far ahead creating multiple drafts of scripts, script plans and character profiles. Despite all this, i had trouble filming my final piece due to some shots being out of focus, but my preliminary helped me prepare for this.

I also had to learn to direct better as well, during the filming for my preliminary task, a lot of my cast were going off task making it very difficult to film properly. This was partly my fault due to not being properly prepared, and I should've been explaining to them better what to do and how to do it, Instead the filming process took longer than it should have and it was very sloppy and all over the place. 

Another technical thing i have learned is the ability to properly use cameras and camera focus. In my preliminary i attempted to use a few pull focuses, but ended up doing them too far, and not cutting them off in post-production. In my final piece I used a quite advanced shot containing a pull focus, which was made a lot easier with my experience from my preliminary task.

Something that i learnt from my preliminary, but didn't use in my final product was audio editing. In my final piece I matched up audio to video using editing, but i didn't have to go into a programme like audacity to directly changed any audio due to there being no voices or background noise involved. In my preliminary I also failed to use the 180 degree rule, which was a huge mistake that lowered the quality of the film. In my final piece, I did use the 180 degree rule so the audience could easily understand everything that was happening in the scene in terms of character positioning and mise-en-scene.