Looking Back On Your Preliminary Task, What Do You Feel You've Learnt In The Progression From It To The Full Product?
First off, here's the task that Charlotte, Daniel and I made called 'The Broken Friendship' back in October:
We then had to do a short evelaution of how we felt after the task: http://www.lasmediagwhs2014.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/preliminary-task.html
Then the process to make our final film began, we learnt alot of things along the way for our final product. That in my opinion turned out pretty successful.
Alot of planning and preparation went into the final product (Months Worth) from writing scripts and story boards to improving shot types. With our preliminary task we had scripted it and planned shots in 5 minutes to get on with filming and editing. The planning of our final product really helped out alot, by the end of the planning we had a clear vision of what we wanted and what the product would look like. Alot better compared to the foggy ideas we had about the preliminary task.
Mise-en Scene was a big hurdle for us to get over after our original product before the re-shoot, as we actually used the same location as the prelim. We then thought it would defiantly be better to re-shoot in a much more realistic location.
We also learned a big thing that made up our film and that's lighting and colour correction. In our preliminary we had no lighting and we had no idea what a colour corrector was! Now look at us, masters of the colour correcter (well i'd like to think we are) as every scene we did we wanted it to be dark and eerie so we learnt ourselves the wonders a little colour wheel can do.
When doing the match on action for our final product, it went alot better than what it did previously too! Our actor Ryan didn't have to keep repeating actions as much and the editing was alot smoother. The sound editing too was alot more advance in our final film, adding levels, music and sound effects which is alot more than the prelim, which we just added some music to the start and end of the film.
Initially our group of Robbie, Charlotte and I got on really well and all our ideas worked really well together. However as we decided that we didn't like our original film Robbie wanted to keep it, so we lost a member of our group so two of us had to share the work load. I've learnt that everyone has to have equal workload so its fair on everyone, especially with the amount of work it takes to produce the product. I also think we learnt alot about time management and how to keep to schedules, where as in the first task everything could be done in the time given with some left, this on the other hand took alot of time with the blogging going on too.
You also have to learn to be very cooperative with the other members of your group as you may not all have the same ideas. Everyone has to be willing to have their ideas made or shot down, either way you must accept it. It also helps if you all get on well too, if you have no relationships with the other group members then you will find it hard to get your ideas across and understand theirs'. I think we were very lucky in that aspect that we were all friends.
Overall I'm very proud of what my group have managed to produce of our final film. Looking back at the preliminary task I can defiantly see clear improvements from when we first began till now in alot of areas from planning to filming and editing.
Hopefully in the future I will look back on this and think my skills have improved further. Well I hope they will anyway.
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