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

It was a lot more difficult to make the film than it was the preliminary task.

Firstly it was a lot more demanding technically. Organising people and locations and props before the shoot even began was really difficult as everyone was so busy and the location was only available at certain times.  Although we had storyboarded and scouted the locations before-hand, when we got there we realised we had to set-up a lot of the shots differently, which took time and was frustrating for the actors. We had a lot more difficulty with sound also, as we had not done any exterior shots for the preliminary and didn’t realise how noisy it could be. Directing the actors was also a lot more difficult as they hadn’t learnt their lines and it took a long time to get them able to run through a master shot. It was hard to constantly think about where to put the camera in order to keep to the 180 degree rule also. This was much easier for the preliminary. When we came to editing the film, it took a lot longer than the preliminary because it was longer but also because there were different ways we could do things but there were also some cuts we wanted but couldn’t do because we didn’t have the right footage. When we came towards the end of the editing, it felt a lot more satisfying than the preliminary did though. It felt like we had achieved something that we had spent a long time planning and thinking about and that the film was quite close to what we thought it might be, although there are obviously things that could have been better. By the end we were working much better together also, and had become really good at editing and suing different technologies like blogging and filming. Although we liked the preliminary, and it felt difficult at the time, we were much more proud of the film and the preliminary now looks a lot easier than it felt then.