The document summarizes the author's experience completing preliminary exercises and a main task for a media evaluation course. For the preliminary exercise, the author filmed shots of a character opening a door and conversing, practicing techniques like match on action, shot-reverse-shot, and following the 180-degree rule. For the main task, the author created the opening titles and first two minutes of a fiction film, applying techniques learned and experimenting with new editing tricks. The author felt they improved their understanding of how to practically apply filming and editing techniques through hands-on experience with the assignments.