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

During the course of this whole project, starting from the prelim task and ending with our film opening, I feel like I've learnt so much ranging from media theory to the pre-production, production and post-production of each task.

The Brief

The brief for the prelim task: 

'Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanged a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.'

The brief is very specific in terms of what is required as it tells you exactly what action should happen and it also has three continuity techniques that must be used.

The brief for the film opening task:

'To produce a 2 minute opening for a fiction film. All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright free source. It should be clear from your sequence who the target audience is.'

This brief is a little less specific as we could choose the action that happened in the 2 minutes and the continuity techniques aren't actually specifically stated in the brief but since it's a film opening it's pretty obvious that we had to use those for our opening.

I have put together a Prezi presentation to illustrate what I've learnt in the progression from the prelim task to the full product: