Looking Back At Your Preliminary Task, What Do You Feel You Have Learnt In The Progression From It To The Final Product?

We learnt how to work together and how to time our production. We needed to move to our locations and to do so needed to be organized in who took what and where we went. There were no fallouts and the entire movie went smoothly. This is in contrast to our 'Prelim Task' where we didn't know what was going on and who was doing what. Everything came with slight spontaneity compared to our 'Final Task' where everything was organized and thought about before hand.

However, one of the most important things we learnt in the ‘Final Task’ in comparison to the ‘Preliminary Task’ is that we should not cut heads off the shot. This is vital as it makes a good film great and ruins most of the shots. As you can see from the ‘Prelim’ (left side) Michaels head has been cut off as the protagonist (this is one example from many other shots). To correct this we added extra room for a professional touch and to ensure we did not cut off his or any other characters head (right side).

As well as this we also ensured that the image looked sharp and professional. The movie we wanted to make had to look better and the overall feel of it had to be too. Its key for making a good film and making everything look better. As you can see in the ‘Prelim’ the shots were blurry and at times untidy due to the fact we didn’t check the lighting and misused the tripod for multiple shots. You can see the sharper image quality in the ‘Final Task’ making it more authentic.

We were fairly happy with our shots during the production of our ‘Preliminary Task’ however, we became ambitious with our ‘Final Task’. We didn't want an outside shot near a chapel, we wanted one near a river in the middle of the city. Also we didn't want our protagonist to see the villain suddenly and the build up to not be as dramatic. So we took a car park and placed the villain in various shots around the area to make everything bigger and more ambitious. The following shots show the diff erences in what we wanted to accomplish and what we went for. This was helped by our choice of locations which were a lot better in comparison to our ‘Preliminary Task’.