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

- This is my preliminary task. Looking back at it now after completeing my opening sequence, I feel that i've learnt a few things and improved in some areas. For example; sound. Throughout the whole of the preliminary task that we made the sound wasn't very good, there was a buzzing sound which effected the way the final piece looked. But during creating my opening sequence I learnt how to improve this by adjusting the volum, adding in non-diegetic sounds and more dialogue.
- Another thing that i've learnt is transitions. In my preliminary task we didn't use any transitions, therefore the cuts between shots didn't look as good and felt too quick. Whereas in my opening sequence we used a variety of transitions to make the shots fit together.
- I've also learnt how to frame shots better. In my preliminary task theres a panning shot at the end where one of the characters gets up and walks away, this shot cuts off her head which makes it look unprofessional and doesn't show the audience the whole view of her walking away. In my opening sequence we made sure that before filming we had the camera steady and at the right angle to include everything we needed in that shot.
- The final thing that I felt i've learnt was to shoot things more than once. In my preliminary task we only filmed everything once, which meant that when we came to the editing stage, we had to cut a few things out that had gone wrong. And during filming my opening sequence, we filmed things 2-3 times just incase anything went wrong, so we would have extra footage during the editing stage.