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 out preliminary task, it helped us to develop our knowledge on our camera techniques and editing. We didn't use any of the footage in our final piece because it simply didn't fit the genre and would have looked out of place and misleading. I found that i was able to recognise the variety of angles that could be achieved by setting up the camera and tripod in various situations. It helped me to improve my filming quality and it help me to practice different effect and techniques. We used a basic setting for our filming of an office atmosphere and got two friends to rehearse the short script we had prepared for an 'interview'. We wanted to capture head shots, close up, shot reverse shot and medium close up. We were able to achieve all of these and successfully filmed the two characters as though they were having a professional interview. Once we had transferred it onto the computer we then edited it in Imovie. We trimmed and cropped certain parts and added in transactions to make it look more film like and realistic. I enjoyed doing this task as i learnt a lot from it from positioning of the characters to angles of the camera work. I found it very beneficial and feel like it helped me to produce a better outcome for my final piece.