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

CameraIn our preliminary, we didn’t vary our shot types, we were only familiar with Over the should and Long shots, so we used them throughout. But in our final construction, we used long shots, close ups, over the shoulder and point of view shots.

Mise en Scene

We didn’t consider lighting, costume or setting in our preliminary. We filmed in a class room and the lighting was pretty bad, however in our final construction, we took some time to think about the costumes, settings and props. We also worked with the lighting as we changed the ISO settings on the camera and used the LED lights for the camera.

Editing

Our preliminary was slow paced as we just placed our footage after each other. Some shots went on for way too long so when it came to the our film opening, we made sure that we cut footage down and we had some black screens. This would cause the audience to question what's going on and keep them interested. Also continuity has improved as we used it more often.

Sound

Our preliminary included some ambient sounds which weren’t intended. This caused the dialogue to be quieter. To prevent this, we made sure we used a microphone for our dialogue. We also used background music where appropriate to keep the audience entertained because we seen that the silence would be off putting. And we added some sound effects such as gun shots to make it more intresting.