The student learned significant lessons when progressing from their preliminary task to the full production. Specifically, they learned how to effectively use camera techniques like lighting and angles to improve shot quality. They also learned how to properly edit clips together without background noise or jumps. Additionally, they learned to consider natural circumstances and genre conventions to make the final piece more authentic and clearly within the intended genre. Overall, every aspect of the production improved dramatically from the preliminary to final version.

1. Evaluation - Looking back at your
preliminary task, what do you feel you have
learned in the progression from it to the full
product?
By Harry Pennington

2. - Since then however we have researched and looked at tutorials on
how to effectively use the camera to get good quality shots and that
has had a huge impact on how our final piece turned out.
- For example in the real production in the picture shown
above, we used the natural light to our advantage to create
a dark intimidating scene to reflect the character, the
preliminary doesn’t do anything about the lighting, leading
to a mundane shot. The production shot was done with
chiaroscuro lighting in mind.
- Yes, during our Preliminary task we had little
idea on how to effectively use the camera and
get good angles, resulting in shots which
didn’t work, the angles were either not level or
positioned in a way that led to the scene not
being presented in a good way which
ultimately didn’t give us a very good
preliminary task.

3. Editing
- Editing was also of a poor
standard for our preliminary,
you could hear as much
background noise as you
could the speech and the
clips were poorly stitched
together, this lead to a jumpy
and unrealistic piece.
- Since then we researched
how to use the editing
program Adobe Premiere
Elements 11 through tutorials
and forums and our final
piece was of a much higher
standard.

4. Lighting
- In terms of lighting there is also a huge jump in
terms of quality from our Preliminary task to final
piece, in our Preliminary task the lighting wasn’t
managed at all leading to the scene having
arguably too much lighting for the entire piece with
no variation at all.
- But in our final piece we have a mixture of lighting,
ranging from the dark scene with the ‘boss’ in the
second scene to a decent lighting in the first. The
variation gives a good cut.

5. Natural Circumstances
- We also learned that we can’t control the weather and worked around
the weather to give an authentic look so it conformed to the codes and
conventions of our genre.
- This meant we had to make sure it
was cloudy during the car scene as to
have it either sunny would be odd of
this kind of film and raining would of
provided for very precarious filming.
- This is different to the Preliminary
task where we just filmed inside on a
sunny day regardless of anything in
terms of codes and conventions and
therefore doesn’t give an authentic
look.

6. Genre
- We have also come a long way from conforming to the
genre itself. In the Preliminary task you’d have a tough time
trying to figure out the genre of the video if there was one at
all.
- We made it hastily and therefore paid little to whether the
video fitted into the genre we was aiming for.
- In the final piece however we made sure that this was
rectified and so the video is clearly a British crime film. You’d
be hard pushed to mistake it for a romantic comedy.

7. Conclusion
- So overall we have come a very long way from our
preliminary task to our final piece. Every aspect our
conduct has improved to give a much better product.
- The editing, camera angles, lighting, acting and
sound of the final piece are professionally done
where as the preliminary task was done quickly
without a sense of purpose.