1. What have you learnt in progression
from your preliminary to your final
product?

2. Planning
When we filmed our preliminary task, we were able to film it within
one lesson of media. This was obviously beneficial to us as it got us
used to what we would have to do for our final coursework,
however, we may have become too confident and not realised the
necessity of planning the product.
We then realised when filming our opening, that planning was an
essential part of the sequence.
During our planning, we learnt how to embed important
conventions such as enigma and music types to ensure that people
are aware of our film being part of the thriller genre.
The storyboard enabled us to follow our ideas step by step, so we
were not contemplating and arguing about what should come next
as we had already agreed on the steps in the process of making our
storyboard and animatic.

3. Continuity Editing
During our preliminary; continuity editing was more simple compared to our final product as it
did not have as much footage, and the footage that it did contain was not as action packed as our
final opening. Furthermore, there were less camera shots and angles, so continuity was not as
vital in this preliminary task.
Despite our preliminary not involving many clips, we still accidentally cut off some of the shot as
we were unaware of this problem at the start so we did not recognise it.
In our preliminary, it was a requirement that it included match-on-action, the 180degree rule and
shot-reverse-shot, so these were all included in our very first task. However, not many of these
shot types were needed in our final product as there was no dialogue in our opening. However,
we did include match-on-action occasionally, as well as the 180 degree rule.

4. Equipment Confidence
I feel that at the beginning of our coursework,
our whole group was anxious about using the
equipment as it is something that we had not
done before. After filming the preliminary, I feel
that it boosted our confidence slightly and then
at the end of our final piece, we were all
confident of how to operate the camera, tripod,
lights etc.

5. How successful do you feel your end
product is?
Personally, I feel that our final product is fairly successful in
meeting the required criteria. I believe that despite hitting some
obstacles, during the process, we managed to overcome the
majority of them by working together and asking for assistance
when we couldn’t figure it out independently.
I think that our group was effective in the editing process as well
as making our opening similar to other official thriller films.