Evaluation Question 7

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

Comparing the final film and production for it to the preliminary film we did at the beginning, I think what both as a group and personally, we’ve improved in every aspect.

The most notable change/ improvement would be the planning. When we made the preliminary film at the beginning of the year, we went in it head first with next to no planning. We assumed that we would just take the shots on whatever we think would look good at the time. However after looking back at the final preliminary film, we count have been more wrong. There was no flow from shot to shot, it was confusing, and in complete honesty, it looked like a joke.

After seeing how unsuccessful this was, we decided for the final film, we would spend multiple hours both in school and at home on the planning aspect. And after doing so, we had a specific list on what we would be shooting, what angles, where and when all as a plan. This proved successful in the fact that the final film flows like a normal film should, we have many more shots, and it generally has a professional feel; giving the final film a more ‘real’ media product feel.

Another major improvement will be the maturity in the filming. During the preliminary film, we didn’t take much care, we joked around, and this was shown in the final film, as it wasn’t very good. However we went about the final film as though we were independent filmmakers. We arranged filming out of school time, we took care of the mise en scene of the characters; we dealt with every small issue, and made making the film out top priority over having fun doing it.