The document discusses the progression from the preliminary task to the main task. It describes some mistakes in the preliminary task like unclear sound and editing errors. It then outlines improvements made for the final production, including using more camera angles, higher quality footage, better planning with storyboarding, and smoother editing with a wider range of transitions and effects. The preliminary task helped provide experience with equipment and build confidence for the larger scale final production.

1. LOOKING BACK AT YOUR
PRELIMINARY TASK, WHAT DO
YOU FEEL YOU HAVE LEARNT IN
THE PROGRESSION FROM IT TO
THE MAIN TASK?

2. OUR GROUP
At the start of the year we originally were going to work in a group of
four. This consisted of me, Emma, Emily and Amy. were all friends and
thought it would be fun to work together because we all had so many
amazing ideas. However when moving forward with our project and
mind mapping what and who was going to do what it became apparent
that us all having something to do was not going to happen. We all
took note of each others ideas but actually incorporating them all into
the film was a lot harder than I previously expected. We later decided
we were going to split the group, in order to involve everyone's
creative ideas. It also gave everyone the opportunity to take a roll in
the creative side of production, no one was left with nothing to do at
this point. But, Emma then left sixth form which then left me by
myself. I didn’t want to work on my own and wanted to be in a group
so we joined back together as a three and I contributed ideas around
that we could do. This means that I was a latecomer to the production,
however I caught up with the work and found out all the initial ideas
for this film and also provided.

3. PRELIMINARY TASK
At the beginning of the year, I didn’t know hardly
anything about media, however I did know that I
wanted to develop my skills and knowledge
further into the subject. I had never done any
editing, filming or been part of a media
production before, so I wasn’t very confident in
making our preliminary task. However, by doing
our preliminary task I learnt ways to use to
camcorder, the tripod as well as premier pro to
edit all our clips together. By doing this in our
preliminary it put me in a good position when
using them later on in our final production. It also
gave me and other people in my group the
confidence when it came to our final production
in which we used all three of the products.

4. WERE THERE ANY MISTAKES IN
OUR PRELIMINARY TASK?
 One thing that went wrong within our preliminary task was the sound. The sound
that we added was irrelevant and also didn’t have much meaning behind it. Also
when the characters were talking, it wasn’t very clear and you could hardly
understand what both of the characters were saying.
 Another mistake that happened in our preliminary task was the editing. When both
the characters were speaking we noticed that we cut out part of the speech. This
then meant we missed what one of them were saying so it wouldn’t really make
much sense for the person watching it. This was a problem because it then made
our final production for our preliminary less professional and less appealing to the
viewers watching as they wouldn’t be able to understand and hear the dialogue
correctly.
 I think another thing we didn’t really think about was mise-en-scene. We didn’t
use any different costumes or effects to present our characters any differently which
the audience may have found boring and then to improve this I would make sure
that we actually do mix up our costumes and editing to make sure the audience
don’t get bored and pay attention.
 Another issue I noticed was the quality of the footage. We used a standard
camcorder to get the clips for our preliminary task. I noticed the footage was not
the best quality, it was slightly fuzzy. So I had already decided that when making

5. IMPROVEMENTS FROM THE
PRELIMINARY TASK Although our preliminary task had everything that we needed to have in it, in the
production. We only mainly used basic camera angles such as the shot/reverse shot
and mid shots. To improve on from our preliminary task we added more camera
angles, movements and shots on our final production of ‘MISSING’ to make it more
professional. By doing a wide variety of shots it provided us with the chance to show
of the location of where our production is set.
 For example we used high angles shots, low angled shots, point of view shots, shot
of them from behind and in front, close ups, establishing shots etc. this was done to
create a more exciting and thrilling final production which leaves the audience
wanting more.
I have realised story boarding is very important. When I do my next project I will be
sure to plan all my shots and ideas out on a story board first, as I struggled to
remember all the shots I needed which then caused difficulties in continuity.
From planning and research to the editing of the film, our group has gained much
experienced and had improved since the preliminary task. We have made good
progression and improvements. For the research and planning stage, this greatly
improved as for blog posts they were more detailed and had a range of different
terminology used in them, we also researched much more about thrillers and what
they typically contain than we did for the preliminary task. As for the production we
learnt about time management and how to spend it wisely. Because of the preliminary
task it helped us out when taking the equipment out of school as we had already
learnt how to handle the equipment. We also had a larger time scale for this

6. FINAL PRODUCTION
 We also managed to make the editing of the final production much
better than the preliminary task. The editing was smoother, used a
wider range of transitions as well as different effects.
 As the sound in our preliminary task was not up to a good standard,
we made sure that in our final production it was a main priority and
try and improve from this. When in post production editing our clips
on premier pro, some of our clips changed sound so we added an
effect on it to make it flow through.