The document discusses what the author learned from their preliminary task to creating a full product thriller video. Some key lessons included learning camera angles, basic editing skills like cutting and grouping, and applying sound and color editing techniques after researching Adobe Premiere. While the storyboard and schedules were helpful for planning, sticking to them during filming proved difficult. The author had to make changes during filming and ended up needing an extra day to complete it due to time management issues. Managing the actors and crew for indoor versus outdoor locations also presented challenges.

1. Question 3
Looking back at you preliminary
task, what do you feel you have learnt
in the progression from I to full
product?

2. Preliminary task
During my preliminary task I made quite a few
mistakes, for example no sticking to the 180
degree rule and having to re-film a bit of it.
Although, I learnt a lot from the preliminary task
such as camera angles and when and how to use
them, I also learnt the basics of editing like
cutting and grouping.

3. Research
After the preliminary task I researched adobe
premiere, the software we were to use for the
thriller. I learnt more about sound and colour
editing techniques and was able to apply them
to my thriller when I needed to.

4. Filming techniques
The 180 degree rule and shot reverse shot were
not needed for my thriller so we did not use
it, there were no conversations or interactions
between two people.
We did use match on action during the end
scene when the girl walks into the garage and
sees the other girls on the floor.

5. Storyboard and schedules
The storyboard was helpful to set out what we were
going to film and to make sure everyone in the group
was in the same mind set for shooting but when it
came to actually filming we felt we didn’t need to use
the storyboard as we all discussed everything we
needed to do while filming.
In the same way the schedules were helpful for us to
inform our actors about times but we found it hard to
stick exactly to the schedule and ended up having to
film on another day. Therefore we should have tried
harder to stick to the schedules discussed.

6. Changes
During filming we came across some dificulties
with some shots therefore we had to make
decisions on how we would change some shots.
This happened with our first shot and is how
came across using the 360 degree shot in the
way that we did. When it came to the last scene
we wanted a sense of randomness about the
girls and how they were spread out so we made
the decision of positions at the time.

7. Time
During the filming day we unfortunately did not
stick to correct time schedules and neither did
our actors therefore we had to film over two
days instead of our plan which meant we could
have finished in one day.

8. Managing crew
Luckily our actors were very easy to manage and
they did what they were directed to do therefore
our shots went smoothly, some times we were
unsure exactly what shots we wanted so we shot
them from different angles.
Luckily our location was a house for a lot of it so we
were able to organise that with ease but when it
came to the forest following scenes it was a little
trickier as we had to get actors and equipment to
different places. But we organised I well and made
sure timings were correct so we could get the
filming done swiftly to make sure we took less time.