Final Cut

Evaluation Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

From looking at the preliminary task we have used a number of different skills we learnt during the task and applied them to the film opening production.  By being put in a larger group for the preliminary task it allowed me to rely more so on others, this then also prepared me for the amount of work we would be doing for our production. When we created the preliminary task we were also told to use Hollywood style editing, this was an unfamiliar style to us, this allowed use to create a more professional looking film opening in contrast to our GCSE work. The preliminary task also told us we could have a maximum of 30 seconds, ensuring we didn't overrun this is something we would have to take on board for the final production as we had a set time of 2 minutes, and in our groups we found this rather difficult as we had a lot of footage! Our final production over ran 2 minutes which meant we had to cut some of the shots we believed and our class believed didn't work as well as the others. 
We also technically were using more difficult aspects, as in the preliminary we didn't use any colour grading, much of the sound editing we did in the main task was new and we used a different camera and microphone and lighting than to the preliminary task. 

Overall, I feel like I have learnt a lot since beginning the full product. Mostly in the realms of planning and editing. I did not expect to be doing as much planning as I did, however the task has taught me a lot. I feel like Billy and I have produced a good piece of work, using what we have learnt.