Group 6: Question 7; Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

From making the preliminary task, to making a full two minute start to a film, I feel that I have learnt more things, during this period of time. I think the biggest thing I have been able to learn more about from the prelininary task to the full product, is the use of Final Cut Express. Before the preliminary task, I had not used Final Cut Express before. Being a first time user of the editing software, it can be quite difficult to use, because you need to learn what various symbols mean, how to cut clips and how to join bits of clip together, in order to make a full product. In our preliminary task, our editing skills may have not been the best, due to have not used the program before. Due to not using the program before, it also took us longer to be able to edit the clips together, whereas, when we edited the full product, it was completed more quickly and smoothly, because we were comfortable using the editing software.

However, I think in the final product, it was easier to make sure all the clips joined up together nicely, and to use different tools on the editing software, such as making a shot bigger to fill the screen more, or creating sound bridges, which were things we might not have known how to do when we made our preliminary short clip.

From making the preliminary clip to the full product, we were able to use the preliminary clip to see where we may have gone wrong with editing, and to be able to make sure that this didn't happen in our full product. In the preliminary clip, we only had basic shots, such as shot reverse shot, over the shoulder shot, two shot, and a long shot. However, in our full product, we included more "advanced" shots, such as close up shots, and slight cantered angles, to distort and show that something bad may be about to happen.