Main task- Evaluation Question 7

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

Above all, I have most definitely become much more confident in the use of various different technologies such as cameras, final cut pro and blogger throughout the progression from my poorly produced preliminary task to my final product. By this I mean I am confident to independently use each piece effectively, in the ways it will improve my work.

With this in mind, I am now increasingly aware of the details that will be detrimental to my work such as continuity errors and the quality of the images/film we sue. For example, when making our preliminary task, we didn’t notice many details that we later realised to have negatively affected our piece. More specifically, in one particular part of our product, we had people in our shot that we later didn’t when it came to editing. This made our quality of film seem much poorer however positively affected our skills in the way it increased our need to be aware of such problems when it came to the production of our final piece.

Another learning curve has been through our time management. For the preliminary task, we very much left things last minute due to somewhat underestimating the size of the task we had undertaken, and how much time and effort we would need to put into it. From this we certainly managed our time much better in our final task, and I think what helped a lot with this was our use of blogger. Using this technology helped us pace ourselves throughout the production of our film in the way it would include different stages. After every development in our planning and research, as well as the actual creation of our film, we would take time to write it on our blog so we could always refer back to it. In doing this, and noting down all changes we made helped us in thinking clearly about the next steps of the process.

We cannot ignore the many skills we have learnt form the preliminary task up to our final piece. These include the use of all technologies available, and also becoming aware of the conventions of the films we were portraying. I now feel I have a much greater knowledge about what makes a film as effective as the are through the use of effects, dialogue and even effective music. I believe we convey this through the very well suited we have used in our final piece.