Task 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 when we did our preliminary task it seems like a very long time ago but it was only a few months. I think it feels so long because i have learnt so much since we first used the camera and Final Cut Pro.

When we were filming the preliminary task it just felt unorganised because we were so new to using the camera set up, where as when it was our Thriller filming day although we still hadnt used the camera large amounts but because we had planned what we were going to be doing, who with, at what time and where, the set up felt very structured and organised. Setting the camera up on its tripod with the muff and the lighting became fairly quick as we each had a different job to do and knew how to do each of them so we could switch around.

For the editing i found it quite hard at first because it was a very new concept to me and there was a lot to remember but after the prelim editing i found i knew the basics, and then when it came to editing our thriller we had longer on it obviously and Walter had been using Final Cut Pro for a few years so he could teach me some more interesting things to do.

I'm proud of what i learnt and feel confortable using the camera and all the technical things that go with it, and am able to experiment more in editing to create a good sequence.