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

With both of our tasks we were set out to do there was a very big difference between the two, as well as the time we were given was different we also had a very big difference in shot choices.

For example we were given a sheet to follow for our prelim task and we made our own more interesting shot choices for the final task

We were given 10 days for our prelim task for planning, shooting and editing. It took a very short amount of time and our shot choices were ordinary and following a structure given to us.

We were taught, wide, medium, close up and extreem close ups, establishing shots and over shoulder shots.

These were all very simple shots that kept the prelim task its self very simple.

With our final task we created our own story board made of eight pages

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when we were editing the prelim task we were very new to the idea of final cut pro and any kind of editing, we were taught the basics of cutting and putting together but adding things like sound and effects we had no ideas how to or when it was needed. When it came to the final task we used a lot of sound, and effects. For example the door sound, the foot steps, the Churchill speech, the music in the second half, the hammer noise when he was breaking in to the bunker, the bombs, and air raids and airplanes. These were especially key to our sequence because of the twist. It is noticed that the little girl is more scared of the man coming than the bombs upstairs.

In our prelim task we had no sounds added on top at all. We used on effects to cut the scene together either however we used primary sound, like dialogue and the natural door sound.

In our final task the only transition effects we used were the fade. This was to show a certain amount of time has past. As well as making a smooth and professional transition into the tracking shot

Prelim Task