Main Post 12.7 Question 7

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

Looking back at my preliminary task and the film i have produced with my group I think I can safely say that i have developed my skills in learning new techniques.

For example my first point that i would like to make is that of the different variety's of camera i used. In the first task i used a simple hand held camcorder. This was very straight forward to use meaning that we knew how to use it without teaching, however for the main film, we had to use a professional Sony camera that had many different options with it, for example you could change the sound that the mic was producing through it. This meant we had to have a tutorial from our teacher on how to use it as it was a expensive piece of equipment. I believe this has helped me alot in learning how to operate big heavy equipment compared to basic cameras and
recorders.
My second point I would like to make is the use of the editing software, Adobe Premiere Pro. The reasoning for this is that in the preliminary task I only knew how to edit and put clips together, however in the main task I learnt how to make the jump cuts fade in and out and produce title for the start and end of the film for example credits. This made me feel i had better access to the software available to me and I was able to use it to its max resulting in the film having swift cuts.
M third and final point of progression i have made from the the preliminary task is that of being able to co-ordinate the group better and speak out about if i think something wasn't very good for example, in the preliminary task i didn't feel that what my character was being made to act was relevant to the main focus of the film  being made, however in the main film I made sure that if I felt something did not look right on the script i then brought i up with the main leader of the group who was jack and we talked over and discussed how we could possibly change it to make it work better.