Evaluation Q7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Our Preliminary task

At the beginning of this project we created a preliminary task which required us to create a short video showing continuity. There were clear differences between the task for the Prelim and the Main task brief.
Preliminary Task Brief:

"Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. The task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule."

Main Task Brief:

"The titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes. All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source."

The main differences between the Brief's:

• The Preliminary task brief is much more specific about what the sequence could contain.
• The prelim task brief tells you what techniques you should demonstrate.
• The Main Task brief is much broader, allowing candidates to demonstrate their creative ability.

Their was a definite progression between how we dealt with Preliminary task and our Main task in terms of pre- production, production and post-production.

Overall, I felt that the preliminary task provided us with the opportunity to perfect some of the basic skills which would be essential to our Main task moving forward. I think it is evident from the clear differences between our prelim video and our final product that we massively developed our pre- production, production an post production skills throughout this project.