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

At the start of the year when we did our preliminary task, we were not experienced with camera work and the editing software. For the preliminary task we did not really focus on the technical aspects of the camera work. We didn’t worry about the location we filmed in, it being an empty classroom we found. We didn’t really consider anything that was seen in the background so possibly school bags, desks etc. When editing, it was the first time we came across the software so we didn’t have any editing experience therefore the editing wasn’t probably the best standard it could have been. When filming we used the first shot taken instead of revising each shot we filmed to see whether it was good enough to use. In terms of planning we didn’t really think about a time to do the piece we just used a lesson for filming and a lesson for editing. However this was very different for the final media product that we produced. We first planned where and when we were going to shoot. We thought about the content of our product thoroughly to make sure that every fitted and would be easy to understand. Every shot was taken into consideration and we at least took two takes for each shot. When we edited we fine editing the start and editing of each shot carefully picking what we put into our final product. We chose transitions to run throughout our product, and we picked different time scales for each of them to last ranging from about 0.1 seconds to 1.5 seconds. In my opinion I feel like I have progressed majorly from the preliminary task to my final product and I feel a lot more confident with filming and editing.