1. Adel Antabli
Question 7Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you
have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

2. The Preliminary task
 Looking at the preliminary task now, it has been a long time since
than and now that I look back on my skills then and now, I realise
that I have developed this cognitive process of how to latout
scenes the way they should be presented using conventions and
should be focused by enhancing the four factors which make a
scene: Cinematography ,Sound ,Mise en Scene and Editing.
These four technical areas make a scene have meaning. In our
preliminary task we did not focus on these four technical areas,
rather

3. The Story And skills
The story was supposed to be a meeting between Two students with
one owing the other money, the meeting is a parody of how drug
exchanges are supposed to happen, furthermore we used the formal
approach for this. We used a story line and some story boarding as
advised
We knew what shots to use as the seemed appropriate like for
conversations we used shot reverse shot and over the shoulder, but if
we compare that to what I know now I would say that if I could
remake it again I would use binary oppositions and use the four
technical areas to anchor my elaborating sequential idea.
On the right was a storyboard in which our director and writer
produced a story board and a story line .

4. Transitions
For our preliminary task we had to create a sequence which displayed
good continuity in the following actions:
 opening a door
 crossing the room
 sitting in a chair opposite another character
 exchanging of some dialogue
This would all need to be edited to show good match on action,
filmed with a shot/reverse shot in it, using the 180 degree rule. We Had
to think of a way to include these, that’s why we created the story
before the idea of using shot reverse shot. I would like to say that on
the preliminary task we kind of succeeded In continuity editing
however the editing wasn’t as crisp as our final product.

5. My skills (Cinematography)
I was the Editor and Camera Man for the preliminary task and Back
then I didn’t have much knowledge on what shots meant what and
how depth of field would personify a characters true emotions.
On the right of the pictures you can see that the video is out of focus
on the main protagonist. In contrast to the picture on the right there is
the dead peripheral character on the left, who in this scene is focused
on to personify death and decay. This is a comparison between then
and now, You can clearly see a difference in filming and editing. On
the left I have placed a vignette to focus on the character.

6. My skills (Editing)
Again using the same two examples right being the preliminary task and the left being
the final product we can see that the shot looks very different and I know that visuals are
put under mise en scene but my area (being editing) relies on sound and visuals to
create mise en scene so when I mean editing I mean post production, and that has
improved massively after research on how to manipulate the four technical areas
Excluding my understanding of editing has become a key influence on the audiences
understanding of a scene, editing can make a difference between an action scene and
a calm scene using a technique called shot length: this is a common convention of
crime thrillers as I have learnt from research and from the research I was able to produce
the final product in a slow calm manner which gives an essence of mystery and
constructions of cliff hangers.

7. My skills (Editing)
Again using the same two examples right being the preliminary task and the left being
the final product we can see that the shot looks very different and I know that visuals are
put under mise en scene but my area (being editing) relies on sound and visuals to
create mise en scene so when I mean editing I mean post production, and that has
improved massively after research on how to manipulate the four technical areas
Excluding my understanding of editing has become a key influence on the audiences
understanding of a scene, editing can make a difference between an action scene and
a calm scene using a technique called shot length: this is a common convention of
crime thrillers as I have learnt from research and from the research I was able to produce
the final product in a slow calm manner which gives an essence of mystery and
constructions of cliff hangers.