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

 Looking back at the preliminary task we did at the beginning of our course, our group made various developments from being amateurs to understanding media concepts and the process of production.

In our task we had to film a conversation between characters, i felt as if it was alot harder to film the prelim task than the opening because :
- in the prelim task we had dialogue and the actors used kept changing their words everytime we re-shot the scene
-we had not yet experienced the strict timing frame in which we had to plan, film and post produce it
- the equipment was still new to us
- not much planning had gone into the shot composition, length of shots or even the mise en scene
- We had not used the editing applications yet so everything was new to us

The prelim task  prepared our group for what was to come and made us plan everything in complete detail to avoid any issues.

- we were able to manage our time effecively due to our schedule. For the preliminary task we did not have a schedule which is what might have caused us to be care-free about sticking to the tight time frame.
- Team work was one thing that deffinitely improved as we took the initiaive and helped each other out when we were struggling.
- The storyboards for our final product were more detailed and included the angles and the time frame, this really helped us for editing.




<---   In this shot, the door was supposed to automatically open, as there were only three of us at that time and we all had different roles, we had to get a student to open the door for us but you can clearly see her in the shot, this showed complete lack of attention to mise en scene.

However in our opening we made surewe had someone standing outside at all times and cleared the toilets, aswell as the hall way to avoid anyone walking into the scene. If we had not gone through the issue of mise en scene in our Prelim task, we would not have put that much thought into the mise en scene of our opening.      --->

 From the Preliminary task we loved the idea of having a low angle shot to represent the power and authority that the character might have over another thus inflicting fear into them.

 we decided to replicate the low angle shot in our opening to portray the same symbolism. However we did make a few adjustmens, we focused more on the lighting to also portray the power, we used low key and ambiguous lighting around him and also chose to light his hands and face red.