Lastly, question 7

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

Since the preliminary task I have learnt so much. More recently, time management skills but generally about the technology you have to pick up so much - I had never properly used a Mac before but we managed to edit the whole film on it, in a lot of detail. When we were first given the brief that we would be creating a film opening and we had from October - April to do so it was as if we had died and gone to heaven. We assumed it would be a fairly simple task but we had no idea of how much depth we woud have to go into, the technicalities and detail you can go into on a computer to make sure absolutely everything scene, camera shot, non-digetic and digetic sound, the editting and matching on action is absolutely perfect. For me, that was the hardest thing. I am not good at making things precise and for this that was a struggle. Whilst I was filming, the idea that my hand touching the camera could move it and mess up the whole thing was a scare! At one point I had to zoom in at the right time of a shot and out again but not touch the camera enough to move it and although I'm small handed, I have learnt I am not light-handed - that scene took about 14 takes due to my unprecise-ness! The other thing is working as a team. It generally works very well it is just issues occur when you are meant to be meeting at a specific time but someone is busy, making sure all the work is equally distributed and when we do our work, we aren't letting the others down. Also, if you make a list of what needs bringing in and that isn't stuck with. Or if people miss lessons so you cannot keep track or alternatively, have done a lot since the last lesson and don't want them left in the dark, but what other choice do you have without them being there? Team work always have flaws but it has lots of benefits too. It is nice to have the support of others and know that you can easily get an honest opinion on something and get advice or an alternative way of doing something. Someone elses opinion on something can just be the answer, it was just you weren't looking for it in the right place! I feel I have worked efficiently in the team and have always pulled my weight. It was hard at times to fit in time to join the others filming but in the end it worked out. Obviously, a lot more team work was needed than in the preliminary task but I feel that was a good example of how much we would be working together and because of it we chose our team wisely!