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

We learnt a lot whilst doing our preliminary task which caused our final product to be better. I feel that if we were to just do our final task straight away with no practice then it wouldn’t have been at the standard that it is now as we wouldn’t have learnt the full importance of different shots and different effects that Adobe Premiere Pro has. In our first task called ‘The Prisoner’ we had many continuity errors as it was the first time we had used a camera before properly; we didn’t understand the importance of the 180 degree rule or action matches. Although we used a range of shots in that task, we found that they didn’t really fit and we now realise that we could have used better types of shot in order to make our short film more effective. Our continuity task was about putting what we had learned about continuity and different shots into practice after editing and watching ‘The Prisoner’. In our continuity task we were allowed to choose our setting and our storyline; we chose a school drama as the genre. The criteria for this task were to use shot reverse shot, action match and to ensure that we followed the 10 degree rule. After editing and watching our continuity task we realised that we had progressed as there weren’t any continuity errors however we feel like it wasn’t very good as we didn’t use any sound effects, in this task we also put some titles on; due to the fact that we weren’t very familiar with the software at this point it meant that the titles were very simple and didn’t have any effects on, in our final task we realised we were able to put fades onto the titles and use certain effects such as blurs; we found this out by trial and error; we put different effects onto our work and played it through to find out which looked better. Also due to the fact that we had to edit both preliminary tasks using Adobe Premiere Pro was good as it allowed us to become familiar with the software and see everything that it had to offer, for example, the sound effects, titles, and different types of edits to put into our film for different effects.