MAIN Post 12.7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

Looking back on both my preliminary task and the main task, from The One Mistake to Behind Blue Eyes, I think there has been an improvement. If I had to choose 3 key points from then until now that I've developed and even improved on they would be as follows below this paragraph.

1) The positioning of the camera when filming the characters has improved from the preliminary task to the main task.

From the picture on the left, it shows the difference in the camera position.
The bottom picture from The One Mistake and the preliminary task shows the camera is too high and not at the eye line level where it should be at, whereas from the top picture and the main task, the camera is placed at eye line level and therefore looks much better.


2) The beginning of the filming in the preliminary task isn't as good as the main task, it's improved from then until now.

The picture to the left shows the beginning of Behind Blue Eyes and The One Mistake. The beginning of The One Mistake simply begins with a black screen showing the title and then a long shot of the character in the corridor. Whereas the beginning of Behind Blue Eyes is with the music coming straight in and panning shots of the equipment and opening credits.

There is an improvement here as even though the preliminary task didn't need to have an opening sequence like the main task did, the beginnings have still improved.

3) The location of where we filmed has improved from back in the preliminary task to the main task.

The picture on the left shows the locations used in the main and preliminary task. I'd say from the preliminary task to the main task the choosing of the location has been improved. In the preliminary task the location wasn't that good as the library was noisy during filming and didn't match the story line as well as the main task does with its locations. The locations of the main task work very well as they are conventional and clear/easy to work out where the girls are.