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?

When I now look back at out preliminary task, I believe that we have improved a great deal and have learnt from our mistakes.  However I believe that we still have made some mistakes which could have been avoided.For example, in the preliminary task we did lack knowledge on how to film some shots, and this consequently made us break the 30 degree rule, which was very difficult to change when editing. The image below shows how we had to try and use a transition effect to cover up the 30 degree rule mistake. Similarly, in our main task we did break the continuity rule, which was very hard to not notice when editing, however when we showed our film to our audience they did not notice. The images below show this:

On the other hand, I believe that the types of shots that we did use were more varied in our main task and added to the genre of the sequence. We used more techniques such as jump cuts to add a fast pace to the film, and also low angle shots to add some mystery as well. In our preliminary task, many of our shots where shaky and out of focus and some points, after gaining experience with the camera, this soon became less of a problem in our main task.

We have improved since the preliminary here because we have established a shot at the same level as the alien toy itself, this makes it more personal to the audience and add mystery as well.

This is in the preliminary task when the shot of the clock was shaky because we didn't have a tripod. The shot could have been made better as well inside of just a low angle shot.

In the above and below shot, we used jump-cuts to produce a fast pace. In our preliminary task we did not  have these because we did not make good use of the little space we had.

In the main task, I feel that we made better use of the locations that were available to us. For example, in the preliminary task we chose a very small room which did not allow for there to be much camera movement, thus making camera shots more shaky and jumpy. In the main task, we used different locations and used more long shots of the characters so the audience can establish who they are and how both of them interact with each other in a large space. This is demonstrated below:

This is an example of when in the preliminary task there was little  room to move the camera so he shot became quite shaky.

In our main task, we have improved and have made use of all the space here, to keep the audience engaged.