Evaluation Question 7: Looking Back At Your Preliminary Task What Do You Feel You Have Learnt In Progression From It To The Full Product?

Through completing our Priliminary task, we all have learnt a lot of vital skills since doing so, which have then helped us in our Main Task. Before we started our Priliminary task, most of us were not aware or familiar with the equipment that we had to use. So before we actually got to work, we decided to have a test run before hand to get us used to the features and technical aspects of the camera in hand.

Before we started our title sequence we were given the Genre that we had to create in our sequences. After being given the news of the genre Horror we sat down as a group and shared our ideas professionally. Working in a group I think has helped us all in different ways. Some maybe for the guidences and other the reassurance that they are learning and beng independent with the facilities we were using. We were all playing with our strenghths to help eachother with their weaknesses, this got us very far and progressivly got us to where we are today, with an amazing final piece.

From the Prliminary to the Main task this whole experience has taught me the importance of PLANNING. Planning before hand prevents time wasting and also allows you to be more imagitative with the ideology that you want to put across.

Our filming always went really well as I feel we worked well as a team as we all took turns in most activities. The locations in which we decided to use were

Priliminary Task - We stayed in the College's grounds as it was a goof real life setting to use.
Main Task - We used a bedroom in Sophie's house, which we thought complimented our style of filming. The dark shadows in teh corners really helped with the effect we wanted to portray. Also we used and empty playing field and park, this enabled us to represent her childhood.

In our main task we used continuity editing. This allowed is to represent the unstableness of a young girls mind and how her re-occuring memories are effecting her sanity. By using continuty editing we have created the increasing pace of the opening sequence and hopefully have put our message across to the audience. The shots in the bedroom were filmed in night mode which enhanced the effect we wanted to portray even more the 'gothic eerie effect'

The editing process took us much longer than we all anticipated. This is due to teh fact that we were all so pleased with the shots that we had captured that we wanted to spend a lot of time and effort choosing the right shots to use. Our group dicussions always worked out to our advantage as our opening was slower to begin with, But as a group we all thought that the pace did not create the tension that we wanted. In order for the audience not to loose interset we decided to increase the pace, which to this day we all feel that it was the right move to make. As we got nearer to the end of finishing our final piece, we felt it was lacking abit in effects so we decided to add some into our piece. We were very carful to which effects we decided to incorperate into our shot film because we didnt want the final outcome to look tacky. We really wanted the effects in the shots to signify and suggest how the character is feeling and her emotions. How her past is taking over her present and future and soon to be her mind.

Overall through the course of two projects, I feel my ability to use the equipment and programmes have really improved and I can see a substantial difference between my ability in the Preliminary task to the Main task. Both projects have really helped me to understand the different forms and conventions that are needed to be used to mae an effective piece like ours. I am very pleased with the whole expereince and I am very proud of myself and my group members. Overall I am very happy with the final outcome!