Question 7

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


This project was different to my preliminary task because there are so many things that were involved in the film such as casting, producing etc. I was able to learn the different editing that was suitable for my film: Continuity and Elliptical editing. In order to make the film realistic we focused on continuity editing so that everything flowed and was smooth. With characterization we needed to think of specific people that we wanted to portray our characters compared to my preliminary task where we could pick anyone that we thought suited to the role. Compared to our preliminary task we subverted expectations of what people expect in a Romantic Comedy, usually they are based around a couple who fall in love however our film had a British twist making it unique.


Also because we had different software somethings were really hard to use one being Imovie because there was only certain things that we could do which i struggled with. For me i felt as though this was a harder challenge compared to the preliminary task only because there were different aspects that i needed to focus on which did make things difficult for me and i then found it hard to concentrate on one thing and so i was behind but i then decided to put more time into what i needed to do within the group i.e. getting the characters the we needed via telephone or thorough school in order to get down what was necessary. 


From the preliminary task we only needed to do a investigation in one room where as in this task we had to find different areas that suited with our storyline which involved having to go to my house to take some footage and outline the night before. we also needed to go to different areas to clarify that this film was based around London e.g. taking shots of hackney town hall and different buses just so that we could make it known to people that we were doing a film based in London from an similar American theme e.g. in the film 'Just Wright'. 


From this experience i was able to identify my strengths and weaknesses which i will then take onto the next task remembering to do things once they had been set otherwise you fall behind.