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

I have learnt many things since the preliminary task, we have looked at camera angles and control which allowed us to create better cuts between shots and to not make it look like it jumped.

As well as the camera control, we made sure that our shots flowed in how they were acted, in our preliminary task for example, we had a shot where someone was sitting down with a leg up, the shot after though shows their other leg up. To make sure we didn't repeat this mistake, we made sure the actors stayed in the same position as they were before to avoid any mess ups.

For our preliminary task, we only received audience feedback from our class, with our end result though, we asked people not in our lesson to look at our sequence and give us honest feedback, to see some of the audience feedback, look at Question 2 (How did you attract your audience?)

The importance of planning we found was very high, in our first attempt at filming our final sequence, we decided to go straight to the location and start filming, unfortunately, when we turned up, we found that the lighting was poor and we would only have 30 minutes filming time. As well as the limited time we also had no storyboard meaning we weren't sure on what the actors were doing. For our actual sequence, we decided to do our storyboard before-hand, this allowed us to know what we were doing. As well as knowing what the actors were doing, it was easier for us to film because it was out of the way of the public, looking back at the preliminary task, we filmed in a public place and fond that we had many distractions. 

As far as using technology goes, from creating our final sequence, we have learnt how to apply many new ideas to Final Cut Pro, for example we added transitions, music and text. For the preliminary task, we weren't sure how to do this, so our film looked very dead and boring. In our final sequence though, we added text for the names, music to add life and suspense, and transition to link the shots smoothly. 

In our preliminary task, we had no understanding of thriller narrative/genre theory, this meant we could not base our narrative around anything to do with thrillers. In our final sequence though, we had a very good understanding of thriller narrative/genre theory, therefore allowing us to base our narrative on typical thriller conventions such as being at night and the use of crime (kidnapping).