Looking back on the preliminary task, what do you think you have learnt from the progression from it to the full task?

Since the preliminary task we feel we have picked up a number of new skills. We feel are camera work, use of software and our planning have all vastly improved. We used all of the knowledge gained through the preliminary task to put together and finish our our film opening.

In the preliminary task our planning was minimal with only a simple shot-list to help us. We then walked around looking for a location and built our story up around the location. This wasted time. In our main-task we learnt from this mistake and effectively planned our story and plot first and then made a detiled shot-list and storyboard. This enabled us to complete all of our filimg in a single day as we knew exactly what type of shots we wanted to achieve and how we were gonna edit them all together.

We noticed we had used a larger variety of different camera shots, all from different heights and angles in the film opeing since the preliminary task, however we felt we wouldn't have had the confidence to experiment with all these different types of shots without have first doing the preliminary task. The preliminary task taught us how to film simple close-ups and medium long shots, such as the male teacher (Mark) walking down the corridor which we then able to do in the main task, we also had the confidence after practicing with the camera and tripod in the preliminary task to be able to achieve an establishing shot which was achieved by tilting the tripod, this gave us a perfect, non-shakey shot.


We applied the same method we used in our preliminary task to achieve close-ups and medium long shots in our main task. We Knew from our preliminary how theses types of shots could build tension in a scene and thus deciced to apply them to our own film opening to also build tension and fear. Having already used a number of these shots in the preliminary task we knew eactly what we wanted to achieve.We felt we could use them with confidence in our main task.

In the preliminary task we also learned how to effectively edit these shots seamlessly together which proved essential to the main task, for example the method used to achieve the match cut when opening the door was used in the main task where the antagonist (Jess) picked up the screwdriver. since the preliminary task however we learnt how to apply special effects such as "bad-film" to our footage and also how to add opening credits which are found in almost all film openings.