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

From the start of doing our preliminary task, we did no have any clue on how to edit or film the preliminary task. The first thing we learnt was the 3 major shots that all films should include; over the shoulder shot, 180 degree rule and match and action, by learning this technique we were able to incorporate this idea into our final piece. 

Match and Action

Over the shoulder and 180 degree rule

The preliminary task helped us get an idea of how we should plan a film and to edit a film. We learnt from the preliminary task that we had to always create a storyboard and a Screen play in order to get an idea of what we are going to do when we were filming. Creating a storyboard helps us visualise what camera angles are going to be used in the film and also during the filming stage, and the screen play lets the actors know what to do and where they should be while the filming is a progress. By doing this we did not waste time figuring out what we should for our preliminary task and because we planned our work we did not need to go and redo our work. 

Using equipment, such as the Mac was very difficult, as we did not know how to even use the keyboard as it was very different from a PC. By doing a Preliminary task, it got us prepared so that we may know how to use a Mac computer.

We used over the shoulder shot in our opening scene. This shows that what we have learnt in our preliminary task has help us incorporate these type of shots in our opening scene.

Other shot used was:

point of view shot

Twin shot

This type shot was included in our opening scene

Close up shot

The priliminary task helped us to use these variety of shots in our opening scene.