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

Preliminary Task:





Main Task:






I feel that I have learnt so much from when we did the preliminary task to now.
From looking at my preliminary last and looking at my thriller product now, they are completely different, everything from the lighting to the props.
For our prelim task there was next to no planning, we were just put into groups, given a script, told to go find actor and film the shots we were given on the sheet. For our main task we had been planning for months, from writing the film to organising shots and everything else that had to be done.

For the prelim task we were only given one key light and any other lights that we could find. This made the look of our sequence very harsh because this is a harsh light effect but, this was look we were going for, during this intense scene.

We were given shooting allocations for the prelim, whereas we had to sort out where to shoot for our main task weeks in advance. Compared to just a classroom for the prelim, we planning to shoot our main sequence at Hurtwood and Ewhurst but ended up shooting around just Hurtwood instead.
Our main task took much more organising for props as well, we had to around pieces of paper to be dropped, build a dummy, arrange for the same clothes to be worn on the dummy as the main actor, and fake blood. In our prelim task we were only given a gun which we placed in the centre of the table as a main focusing point.
The shots were also very different between the two sequences; in the prelim task they were just simple shots such as, over the shoulder, wide and close up. In our main sequence the shots became more complex with the use of tracking shots and point of view shots.
For the editing process we spent about 2 lessons just putting the shots into order and using diegetic sound. For our main task we have spend weeks editing; putting the shots into the correct order and cropping them, adding credits, non diegetic sound (Soundtrack Pro), fading and after effects to make the illusion of James falling real; which is much more complex in which we have spent much more time doing.
I think that the main task was much, much more complicated than the preliminary task. I have learnt much more from the beginning of the year, in terms of filming and editing.