Josie reflects on what she learned from her preliminary task to her full product. For her preliminary task, her group's video lacked sound due to a microphone issue and an absent actor, so they had to add subtitles. This highlighted planning and technical difficulties. For her full product, Josie improved planning with her group and learned about different camera shots and editing software. The preliminary task helped her understand challenges and how to improve for her full product.

1. Question 7: Looking back at your
preliminary task, what do you feel
you have learnt in the progression
from it to the full product?
By Josie Crandley 12JMT

2. Preliminary task:
• My group’s ‘Have you fed the fish…?’ task was
not very successful.
• Our camera was not one that is normally
used, and we did not know that we had to
have a microphone attached for sound to
break through.
• And, as we had no sound, we had to use
subtitles overlapping the speech so our
audience knew what was going on.

3. Difficulties:
• One of the people we were having act in our task
was absent, and so we had to find somebody
else.
• The sound and/or microphone was not working
and so there was no sound in our video, which
we then had to put subtitles on.
• Due to the fact that we only had a singular lesson
to film, our location was limited, and our ideas
were not as ‘big’ as they could’ve been.

4. Planning:
• As a group (Ella, Sam, Tom and myself) we
worked really well together as a team, shooting
ideas and possible location spots in each lesson.
• We were well organized at first, but due to one
of the actors falling ill, our actual production
suffered.
• We had chosen to make our task suspicious, and
after drawing a storyboard of ‘The Boss’ in a
park, half hidden by a tree.

5. Camera shots:
• We used an establishing shot to decipher our location,
and I used a similar shot in my opening sequence
(Enough is Enough…), which opened the scene and
showed the audience the location.
• In both sequences I used a shot-reverse-shot, which
was created to show two people in the middle of a
conversation.
• It was hard to decide what camera shots and angles to
use, as the Preliminary Task and my actual opening
sequence were completely different genres, but it
made me realize what shots I knew would not work.

6. The editing process:
• The preliminary task used basic editing, we did
not use anything too fancy.
• We had to add subtitles to our preliminary task,
as the sound was not working, and so as we used
our basic editing skills to create a short sequence,
it gave me better knowledge of editing.
• My preliminary task was edited on Imovie,
whereas my opening sequence was created on
Final Cut. The simplicities of Imovie actually made
it more difficult to edit, knowing that we had
limits to our work.