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

I believe that my main progression from the preliminary task to my main task was the improvement in continuity and editing. At first in my preliminary task the actors seemed to move slightly or the camera would jolt slightly, all though not massively , it is enough to put of the audience. This was my main aim for my film, that there would be solid continuity between scenes so its invisble you almost don't even know that it has occured - like there is in Holly wood films.
Editing also has been a great progression from the preliminary to the main task, at first in the preliminary it was my first time at using the Final Cut Pro software, I was hesitant to cut too much of scenes and the effect of this was the scenes were slightly jolty and continuity was affected. However in the main task the editing was far better, I had knowledge of how to use the software and to cut scenes to make the editing untraceable like the 'hollywood editing'.

Here is a shot from my preliminary that shows how the continuity is not quite accurate:

Where as you can see the improvement into my main task, here is the continuity of the girl swinging, she is in the correct place that she should be.  The swing is in the correct place, she hasn't somehow jolted to another place showing that my editing and continuity has improved from my preliminary task to main task -  almost 'hollywood editing' style:

I have learnt from my preliminary task to my main task the importance of planning before filming. When we did our preliminary we planned minimally naively not understanding how vital is to plan. When we went to film we found that weren't sure what to film first and the order that we were going in, it ended up taking a great deal longer than it should have. So, when we made our opening of the film, we took a long time detailing what would be happening in each shot and how long for so when went out and filmed we were far more efficient and got everything that we had planned too.


These our are story boards for our main task: