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 started our coursework I feel that myself and the whole group have learnt so much and worked so well together. The preliminary task was our trial if you like at filming. We had a laugh whilst producing our preliminary task but when it came down to it we worked very hard to make sure we followed the criteria such has the action match shot and make sure we followed the 180 degree rule.

The preliminary task was our first real test as a team to see how we would work together and see if it was either going to be great or a disaster. Lucky we all got on and were able to speak openly between each other. We all were able to contribute in the group.

The preliminary task we signed each other’s to certain roles whist producing the preliminary task. This gave others and us a chance to see were some of us were strong at and was our weaknesses lied as well. We knew that this would be able to determine who would be doing what when it came down to the real thing.

After the preliminary task came the hard part, all the pre production work that had to be done before we actually could film. There was twenty different assignment’s that had to be done in order for us to complete our pre production work. This is were we all put as much effort in because we knew we had to have a good enough blog to be able to back us up. Even now you could see that we were all improving within ourselves.

The pre production work was being done whilst there was a half term holiday. Over this time it would be fair to say that the group didn’t put as much effort in as we could have. This left us with a lot of work to do when we got back from the holiday to be able to be finished in time and start our filming. We were able to complete our work in time and were strong enough to give us a reliable blog that we knew would back us up.

The filming was a real test for us because we didn’t want to copy someone else’s from the past and we also didn’t want it to be predictable. We made a chart of ideas to do with our genre (horror/thriller) and tried to come up with the best ideas that would make our opening scene our own and better than similar one in the past.

As a group we planned everything we had to do, we had storyboards and prop lists and also we knew the location of were we would film. This showed that we planned everything really well. We knew when we began we could do it; it was just a matter of time to see if we actually would do it.

During the filming we had some minor hitches we delayed us from carrying on filming but as a group we all arranged times that we could meet and do the filming. We had to work on getting effects for a opening because we couldn’t film at night, but we couldn’t leave the opening in daylight because it wasn’t scary and wouldn’t of fit the purpose of the opening sequence.

All in all after going through all that talking about what we did and how we did it I think it just showed that we worked well as a team and was able to get alone. We started off, many of us new to media and at the end I think we all have learnt so much about the world of media.

I think that we would all agree that sometimes it has been stressful trying to get everything in on time and to perfection, but we have had a great time working together and making our opening sequence. We were a weird mix at first and now we have become one and the how team has just grown and worked so hard and hopefully it all pays off.

By Michael Kealy