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

I think that the sound in my prelim task wasn’t very good; the music was really loud at the beginning and the white sound from the children at the beginning makes it sound crackly and unprofessional. The sound in my final product is a lot better, the volume isn’t really loud and when dialogue is used it sounds a lot better.

The editing is a lot better in my thriller opening, I’ve used special effects to make the transitions from shots seem much smoother and more professional than in my prelim where for example the titles at the beginning could be smoothed into the live shots a lot better. by basically gaining experience and knowledge about final cut this helped us a lot with editing the main film.

The camerawork it definitely better in the thriller opening, in the prelim some is jolty and looks really unprofessional, in the thriller opening it’s a lot smoother because we developed our skills on holding the camera and looking over what the shot looks like after shooting them to see if they need to be re shot.

The main is a lot better than the prelim, it looks a lot more professional, and I think that this is because we now know our strengths within the group. I think that Melissa is really good at the camera work and shots, Saskia is good at the creative side- costumes, plots and I think that my strengths lie with the editing and sound. By knowing what we are good at in the thriller opening project we found we worked together a lot better rather than all of us crowded around the mac trying to do the same task resulting in us wasting time.