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

We have learnt that it is important to keep some kind of record of things that we did already, so situations like one on the preliminary task with the door handle is not taking place again. As it is taking away marks for continuality. However, in our film some of things were out of our control, like weather, which was extremely important as we were filming outdoors. Therefore, we were filming in the rain and sun it can be noticed in our film, as well as different times of the day; morning and afternoon. Further more some scenes have been re-shouted, this also has its effects, as our main character has his shirt tucked in and out.
Also we gained more experience with “Final Cut”, that we used to edit for both preliminary task and film opening. Because we have been more familiar with different ways of using the Final Cut, procedure for editing our film opening took less time; editing for “The Taken” was more precise.
Main difference between our preliminary task and film opening is that in preliminary task we only used diagetic sound there was no other non-diagetic sound/music used. Therefore, this was the skill that we had to learn meanwhile editing film opening.
We have also learnt that we must do a great deal of planning before we go out and film the real thing. For example a shot list, location shots a story board and have analysed similar genres to ours.