Q7: What do you feel you have learnt in the progression from the preliminary exercise to the full product?

Look back at the preliminary exercise we did at the start of the year I think I have progressed significantly in skills such as:

· Scripting

· Planning

· Working with others

· Photographic Ability

· Editing Skills

At the start of the preliminary exercise I didn't have very many skills in any of these areas as Media was a new subject to me so my skills especially in editing skills have improved enormously. I think that I have learnt the most skills in editing and team management as they were my designated roles for the group and I felt most passionately about them because I am a perfectionist and I knew that I wouldn't submit the production unless it was as good as it could get. I learnt specific skills such as cutting for match on action which was crucial to giving our final cut the professional look. I learnt many editing skills, for example, how to change a shot to black and white in Premiere. We did this because the shot was a point of view shot from the mysterious man’s point of view and because of his disguise (the tights over his head to disguise his facial features) covers his eyes and therefore the audience would get a feel for what everything looks like in his perspective.

Planning is one of my strong points and therefore this production has just developed my skills in planning. One of the ways in which we did this is by creating a storyboard. By doing this we were able to script what we wanted the actress and actor to say. This also helped us to plan filming around the storyboard.

My Team working towards the Final Cut

Working with others was an enormous part of the post-production stage. We had many fallings out over the ideas for production and then more throughout the actually production stage. However, because we all had to pull through to get the project done to the deadline we decided that some things weren’t worth arguing about and that we should over film all our ideas and then when it comes to editing we decide which shots look best and that gave us a variety of shots to choose from if the original ideas didn’t work. Furthermore, this all developed our editing skills as we had to cut tightly to a time limit of 2 minutes which was difficult because the amount of additional shots we had to consider.