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

I truly believe that the full product we have produced is an enormous improvement from our preliminary task mainly due to the ideas behind it and the filming as the editing has remained fairly consistent.

Our prelim was quite effective at grabbing the viewer’s attention but it had the simplest plot, which was a ‘goody’ and a ‘baddy’ in a conflict over ‘the antidote’. I admit this plot was thought up in 30 minutes whereas the full product took weeks of detailed thought and planning to create a very interesting plot.

The filming in our prelim was fairly effective but we had not yet learnt all of the rules which we then learnt from the feedback on our prelim. We did not put much thought into the mise-en-scene which was what let it down. You couldn’t take an armed conflict scene seriously in a school room. The mise-en-scene in our final product was precisely planned which created an environment with many props to create the exact shots we intended.

What we learned from our preliminary task;

• 180 degree rule- From our prelim we recognised that it is vital to stick to this rule in order to create an effective product.
• Composition-  Our composition as a whole had much more of an impact on the veiwer than in our prelim.
• Sound- The soundtrack to our prelim made the viewers think they where about to visit a rave, this shows our soundtrack for our prelim was innapropriate. This is what drove Steven to compose a very effective peice of music to accompany our Thriller.

So on the whole our prelim was a very usefull pilot test for our full product as we made many improvement which would not of been recognised otherwise.