Evaluation Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full project?

Looking back on the Prelim and my influences, I think that I have learnt a lot in the time between the Prelim and creating my real opening sequence. This has positively impacted the final result of my opening sequence.

The Preliminary Task Brief
"Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule."

Here is our Prelim:

The Production Task Brief
"To produce a 2 minute opening sequence for a fiction film. All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music and audio effects from a copyright-free source. It should be clear from your sequence who he target audience is."

The top three things I have learnt are:

1. The importance of thorough planning - we planned for weeks for our opening sequence compared to only an hours worth of planning for the prelim.
2. The use of continuity techniques - in the Prelim we got a chance to practice these techniques that we aimed to show that we could use effectively in our opening sequence.
3. Spending time on editing - in the Prelim we edited very quickly and I think we could have edited the cuts better. For our real opening sequence we spent much more time doing the editing and therefore it looked cleaner.