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

In our preliminary task we were originally given a storyboard. It had a breakdown of the different scenes that we were to film and the basic camera shots we were to do - like a close ups and long shots. We were to tell a story using visual language about a bomb or explosion going off at our sixth form. They gave use a sony handheld camera and we had access to a tripod too. When we went to film it it was a windy day and you could hear it on the recordings. I originally filmed zoe doing the scenes but found they were out of focus or we would laugh and have to cut it short. When we actually filmed the video we made sure that there was no noise in the background of us talking or laughing as it would have ruined the footage and we would have had to film again. We also used Zoe's camera this time as she didn't like the schools camera. When we edited the preliminary task we didn't know how to edit or to piece the footage together and so we learnt how to do this. We also learnt how to put music on top of the footage for extra detail to create effect for the task. Another thing we didn't know how to do was an animated title and we created this for our film as it looks professional.