The student reflects on learning how to use Premiere Pro more efficiently from their preliminary task to the main task. They worked with a partner and found that their strengths lay in different areas of post-production. For the main task, they had to film themselves without a dedicated camera operator due to a group member dropping out. This limited the types of shots they could include and made shots longer as they had to set up the camera themselves between takes. Continuity was more difficult to maintain without a separate camera operator.

1. Reflecting on Our Preliminary Task
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression
from it to the main task?
I think that I have definitely learnt how to use Premier Pro more efficiently. During my
preliminary task I worked with charlotte again, and I did a lot of the editing and she did the
sound. However, I think from creating our thriller opening we have both learnt that our
strong points are the other way around and during the post-production stage I contributed
more to sound and charlotte focused on the editing.
In terms of the equipment, I didn’t really use any that I hadn’t already used. However, it was
still quite challenging because during the preliminary task I was in a group of three, meaning
that we had a camera person. Whilst making our thriller opening someone from my group
dropped out meaning that there was only charlotte and I, subsequently we didn’t have a
camera person as both of us were in the video. It was too late in the process to start looking
for other people to star in our thriller for us so we decided we would have to film it and be
in it at the same time. This meant that the types of shots we could include were restricted as
we had to leave the camera on the tripod, press record and then get in place for each shot.
It also meant that all of our shots were longer than necessary as we had to prepare before
actually starting whatever action was in the shot. During the preliminary task continuity and
match on action was an issue but it was one that we were able to overcome due to having a
camera person as it meant that charlotte and I could just stay frozen whilst our other team
member moved the camera. In our Thriller opener, on the other hand, it didn’t work this
way because we would have to stop in the middle of an action and move the camera and
then try to replicate our position exactly.