Looking back at your Preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Digital technology.
In my primarily task i was pretty good with using the technology as i have use the same equipment many times before. It was very easy to set up as we had enough space and we didn't waste any time filming we was able to use the camera to its full usability as we knew what buttons did watch. Me and my partner was also comfortable with each other cameras skills so we didn't have to keep asking each other which button did what. We also edited our preliminary task on mac's using the software i movie. We was very familiar with i movie has i had use it before , but remembering what all the icons done was pretty tricky , i soon got the hand of it and was able to cut the the film which made the film look much more smoother and made it flow better. However it took up a lot of time editing the shots as i kept having to redo the cutting of the shot as the pace of the production was not flowing correctly. The only disadvantage was the spacing we had to do all the shots, for example when we wanted a two person shot it was very hard to place the camera into the correct position. When it came to the real task it was much more easier to use the editing software however i found it hard to use the camera as i forgot what all the buttons done.
Creativity.
in my primarily task i tried to make it as creative as possible as we didn't have a restricted brief, we was able to had a very serious side as my main character was trying to stop the enemy from trying to kill him , however we was able to add a comedy side by having the boss do all the dancing. However in our main production we had to stick to having a british social realism theme , most british social realism. films are very realistic and plan and not very creativity , British social realism films catch aspects of every day life but show them at the most extreme points. However was able to use more creativity in our british social realism as we wasn't limited to one location , in my primarily task we was only had one location which was the school however when we made our main production we was able to use more then once location .E.g Alley-way , Partners house. We was also able to add more character into our story line which made our production much more creative as it gave different aspects to the story line. you would be able to see different characters lives and how they live.
Post production.
In our post production there where three simple rules that we had to keep. The one was the rule of thirds. The rule of thirds was a easy one to keep as we knew we had to put it into our production , however when it came to the main production i had complete forgot about the rule , also it was easier to keep the rule of thirds because their was more space for the camera and the spacing wasn't narrow unlike the main production. We also had to add match on action , this was very hard to do in the preliminary task as i hadn't had much practice doing these types of shots , however when it came to the main task it was easy to add this type of shot into my production because i had learned how to do it in my preliminary task. when editing my work i was able to look back at the work and pick out which shot was which , i checked each shot more then once so we knew that all the shots where there. Also i was much better at editing when it came to the real production has i had help when i done my preliminary task , this made the editing much quicker and smoother then it would of been if i didn't do the preliminary task.
Research and planing.
When we done our preliminary production we was successful with out planing . Me and my partner drew up a detail plan on what shots we want and how we want them look like. we planned the story line together so both our ideas where implemented into our work. When we was in production we could easily look at our storyboard and know what shorts where done and which shots we still needed to do. We also both understood what shots we needed to put into our work as we had look on Google and research what the shots where. The biggest mistake me and my partner made was no having actors in our work , we unfortunately use our self in the production which made it hard for us to know if the camera was in the correct place whilst in production. i didn't make the same mistake whilst we produce the main production as i asked other people to be actors for my film