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

Doing the preliminary task feels like a life time away, to think that was the first time that i had uses a camera like that properly. I believe that if i had never done the preliminary task i would have most definitely lacked confidence in the making of our film. Thinking about it now i didn't really think how important it was. It was the start of a great year for me when we took out the camera from then on it was in our hands. Without it i wouldn't have the knowledge that i do now and i don't think i would have stood a chance of making an opening like we did.

For our preliminary task we were asked to film a short piece that had a conversation, match on action, 180 degree rule and shot revers shot. We had to show someone entering trough a door using one of the shot techniques. We had to story board this and then edit it, this gave us a great opportunity to use the equipment. For our main task we were asked to shot the first two to three minutes of a film opening that we had to make up within our group. We had to make up everything the story board the effects and the sounds. The only rules they gave us was that it had to be within the time limit and had to be sensible so no stupid stunts. Our group were very close from the start and when we first begging to think of idea we didn't have a lot of them. We struggled at the begging of this process. All of our ideas come from Micheal's voice over really, he was just messing around with some words and made a great voice over that we use in our opening scene. When he read it to me that's when all of our ideas suddenly kicked in. We began to feel like film makers, we were literally entranced with the idea of making an opening for a film. When i think about it, when i heard our teacher talking about making an opening for a film i thought it would be impossible, i didn't think we would be able to do it and actually at some points near to the end of our editing i thought we were going to loss everything but i think this feeling makes you stronger because we over came it and made a great opening for a film. From the filming of our preliminary task to the opening of our film i feel that i have gained an awful lot of confidence in the use of the camera, editing and working in a group. I have learnt so much and still hope to learn more.

So overall i feel that i have learnt so much in the use media, from the use of the apple mac computer to the most simplest things like how to use a tripod or work the camera. It has taught me lots of different shot types like....
180 Degree Rule
The 180 degree rule is a basic guideline in film making that states that two characters in the same scene should always have the same left to right relationship to each other.
Match On Action
A match on action is a technique used in filming and editing, it is a cut that connects two different views of the same action at the same moment in the movement.
Shot Reverse Shot
Shot reverse shot is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character.

I am so proud of our group and i feel really honored to be able to say i was a part of this group and i wouldn't change the people i worked with for anything, if though we had our differences but most groups do and you get thought it, its what makes you stronger and we were strong enough to in the end create a brilliant film. opening. Like anything it could always be improved and i think if we had the time again i would have like to worked on garage band and create our own piece of music but we didn't have the time. All in all i am very happy with our final piece and sad now that it is all over but i have had a great time and really pleased i had this opportunity.