Evaluation: Question Seven; Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progress from it to the full product?

During our preliminary task I learnt many new things; for example, the use of certain technologies,the importance of editing, how time consuming producing a film and the importance of organisation during a film. In the preliminary, we used technologies which were new to us, and we also used editing programmes which none of us had ever used or even encountered before. Using these technologies in the preliminary allowed us to practise and better the new skills we had acquired for when we produced our main task.

Our main task has definately improved since our preliminary, in many ways. Our main task was a lot more focused on a storyline and clear on genre as we had to be specific so that our target audience could be reached. Compared to the preliminary, our coursework was a lot easier to edit. When we had to edit the main task, I believe we were a lot more skilled with the editing as we had practised with the preliminary, and so the structure of the piece was clearly and more focussed. The idea for our coursework is a lot more interesting than that of the preliminary which helps to make the main task more of an improvement itself.

Altogether there were some parts of our main task of which could be improved. When planning our group had a certain idea of how everything was going to be, but due to the limited time we had to film (because of unforeseen circumstances beforehand), it did not have much likeness to our initial idea. If we had more time and specific editing programmes then we could have been able to make our setting (the forest) more surreal than it already was (i.e. by changing the colours, disfiguring the shape of certain aspects). Mainly, I believe we could have improved the stability of our shots by using the tripod. We opted not to use the tripod so we had more free movement with the camera, unfortunately this came back on us with unsteady shots which made our film look a little shakey. If we could redo the shakey shots, then obviously we would so long as we could have the same free movement as we intended.