7. Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in progression from it to your final product?

7. Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in progression from it to your final product?

I have embedded both my preliminary task and my final product: Deadly kiss. Since starting the course, I have learnt about, planning, editing, shooting and distribution, all in which go into creating a film, some of the skills I have improved on are listed below.

·         The use of useful media documents: story boards, scripts and schedules all helped enable us to be more organised. When planning our preliminary task, we used a script but we didn’t use a storyboard or schedule, this led us to a lower quality preliminary task and a higher quality final task.

·         We used a variety of shots during our final task, whereas during our preliminary task we only used a mid-shoot throughout.

·         Our preliminary task was the first time we had firsthand experience with experimenting different shot types and camera skills. Before we started filming our final product, we had an idea of what type of shots we wanted to use, we decided these when we created our storyboard.

·         Our preliminary task gave us a better knowledge of final cut pro, as before our preliminary task we hadn’t used an iMac for editing. During our preliminary task, we didn’t use Final Cut Pro to its full extent. In our final task we used a wider range of effects and titles.