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

We feel that since our preliminary task, we have achieved a lot in terms of knowing how small productions work, the time and the patience, and how our own inspiration is key in being able to make our product as good as it can be. I feel like we understood the skills of creating an opening well and took what we initially did in our preliminary task and as we started our main task, we quickly built on those skills and knew what would make an interesting movie opening. In the beginning we found the editing software very hard to use as we had never used it before, but after we have learnt new things such as creating a movie logo to be at the start of our opening. However, we did have experience we other editing software before the task and we found that we knew some of the basics of editing individual cuts together and importing/exporting video. Looking back I feel the opening could have had better background music and a little more time could have been better spent on creating more of a narrative and giving more of an idea where the movie would be going. I do feel however, our knowledge of using the editing software has improved well.

I feel that our final product was way better than our preliminary task because it was better planned out. We planned the shots in the storyboard in more depth, talked about each shot in length to make sure we knew what we wanted to say and show in each new frame. We also got into the habit of analysing as we went along filming so we could make sure that we weren't just filming what we thought would look cool, but what made sense analytically. This also helped us if evaluating our movie after it was finished. During our filming of the preliminary task, not much care was given for why each shot was filmed or what it might be saying about the rest of the movie, we just filmed what we thought would look good and it ended up looking too rushed and not enough care was give for each shot than it was in our final product.

More transitions and camera angles were used in filming and that variety motivated us to visual show how we've improved since the preliminary task. For example, we used extreme close ups on various objects and fading transitions whereas our preliminary didn't have these. The complexity of the opening is very clearly there and is very lacking in our preliminary task and we feel that the progression between the two is very clear.