The student learned several important lessons in progressing from their preliminary task to the full opening sequence product. They applied techniques like match on action, shot reverse shot, and the 180 degree rule that they learned in the preliminary task. They also improved on identified weaknesses, such as using a tripod to keep shots steady, filming at night to fit the thriller genre, focusing manually, and adding more post-production elements like editing and sound design. Overall, they gained experience in creating a cohesive narrative and establishing the genre over a longer two minute period compared to their shorter preliminary task.

1. AS LEVEL MEDIA EVALUATION
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2.  7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that
you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
 Progression from preliminary task to main task – look back to
evaluation of preliminary task and weaknesses in particular. How
have you addressed these issues?
• Tripod
• filming at night
• Auto or manual focus
• more post-production
• Continuity
• Music
• Foley sound
Basically, it is much harder to create a clear narrative over 2
minutes than for just 10 seconds or however long your
preliminary task lasted. How have you shown different scenes or
points-of-view in your opening sequence?
Take poorly-framed image from preliminary task and place it
alongside well-composed, post-produced image from main task
to highlight differences.
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3.  7. Looking back to your preliminary task, what do you feel that you have learnt in the
progression from it to the full product?
The first task we had to do in AS Level Media studies was a preliminary task we taught us the
skills of match on action, shot reveres shot and 180 degree rule. These three techniques
which we learnt during the preliminary task really did come in handy when producing our
opening sequence. The difference between the two was very obvious, when we came to
editing our preliminary task all wee had to do was shorten the clip and then put them in the
correct order, in comparison to all the editing techniques we learnt and used in out opening
is a big jump. Thing we learnt from the preliminary that came in handy with our final product.
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While filming our extra scene we applied the 180 degree rule, we had the understanding that
the camera had to stay on one side of the imaginary line and was not allowed to cross it all.
As you can see from the shots above we didn't break the 180
degree at all.

4. Progression from preliminary task to main task – look back to evaluation of preliminary
task and weaknesses in particular. How have you addressed these issues?
• Tripod
• filming at night
• Auto or manual focus
• more post-production
• Continuity
• Music
• Foley sound
The weaknesses of our preliminary task was that we had some continuity errors like
when we film the same scene but in two different places, the strengths of the
preliminary was that the tripod kept the shot steady and the lighting present was
perfect. From this task we were able to recognise the things we should and
shouldn't do, to make it seem like a thriller we needed to film at night when
possible, but the problem was getting all of our crew and cast members of be
available at that time but this was over come by editing the shot in the editing suite.
The hardest part of this whole project was deciding on music choices as we all had
very different music tastes and liked different tracks. As a group we had to learn to
compromise and make a decision , the way we did this was taking the majority
votes in the group. Over we had five different music choices but after receiving
feedback we eventually all began to agree and now believe we have the best
choice.
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5. Overall this whole process of creating an opening sequence has been fun, even
though there were some disagreements which took place. The only issue we had
was how were we going to create a two minute opening sequence for a narrative
that was meant to span over a 90 minute period. In the group we had to make a
clear rough outline of what would happen after the opening sequence. The whole
point of an opening is to establish the genre and to show the audience key events
they will take place later on in the narrative.
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