7. Looking back at your Preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
I think that my skills as a filmmaker have improved dramatically from my preliminary task to my Thriller opening. When I started media studies, I had no experience of filming and editing, but when we were making our preliminary task I was slowly getting better and better. During the filming of my preliminary task we gained knowledge of the 180 rule, which we broke once during the filming and editing of the Preliminary task. We managed to use shot reverse-shot effectively, which we didn’t use in our thriller because we didn’t think that it’d suit the opening because shot reverse-shots are normally used during a conversation and we didn’t have any dialogue exchange in our Thriller opening so we didn’t think it was appropriate. In our preliminary we did use a match on action because we were required for someone to walk through a door, so by having a shot of someone opening the door then from the other side someone walking through the door created a good match on action which we used in our preliminary. But we didn’t use any match on action in our Thriller opening because once again we didn’t think it’d work, due to the thriller being disjointed. But for my thriller opening, we used a lot of out of focus/dark shots in order to create a tense, mysterious ambience. Overall I feel that I have progressed a lot since the Preliminary. The preliminary taught me how to use the technologies. But for my Thriller opening I had to take that understanding to the next level and make it more advanced. Which took time and a lot of work. We had 3 different Thriller Openings by the end of the editing but after weeks of work we choose the best and the one which used the most conventions. Also our editing skills have developed since our preliminary task. In our preliminary task we used some basic but effective editing techniques, but in our thriller we used some complicated editing techniques such as fade transitions, which we used to create tension and anxiety within our audience. Also our planning skills have increased because we were able to plan out what will shot and within what time frame, unlike in our preliminary where we filmed everything at once making it much harder to do re-shots afterwards, plus we didn’t get many shots for each shot in our preliminary task due to our awful planning. Also we were more organised for our thriller opening because we had to sort out what time we were going to start shooting at and what time we were going to finish, therefore we had to organise everything. Unlike in our preliminary task where we had an hour time slot to shoot all the footage we needed, and we weren’t very organised because we hadn’t really planned out what we were going to shot. 
I think that my skills as a filmmaker have improved dramatically from my preliminary task to my Thriller opening. When I started media studies, I had no experience of filming and editing, but when we were making our preliminary task I was slowly getting better and better. During the filming of my preliminary task we gained knowledge of the 180 rule, which we broke once during the filming and editing of the Preliminary task. We managed to use shot reverse-shot effectively, which we didn’t use in our thriller because we didn’t think that it’d suit the opening because shot reverse-shots are normally used during a conversation and we didn’t have any dialogue exchange in our Thriller opening so we didn’t think it was appropriate. In our preliminary we did use a match on action because we were required for someone to walk through a door, so by having a shot of someone opening the door then from the other side someone walking through the door created a good match on action which we used in our preliminary. But we didn’t use any match on action in our Thriller opening because once again we didn’t think it’d work, due to the thriller being disjointed. But for my thriller opening, we used a lot of out of focus/dark shots in order to create a tense, mysterious ambience. Overall I feel that I have progressed a lot since the Preliminary. The preliminary taught me how to use the technologies. But for my Thriller opening I had to take that understanding to the next level and make it more advanced. Which took time and a lot of work. We had 3 different Thriller Openings by the end of the editing but after weeks of work we choose the best and the one which used the most conventions. Also our editing skills have developed since our preliminary task. In our preliminary task we used some basic but effective editing techniques, but in our thriller we used some complicated editing techniques such as fade transitions, which we used to create tension and anxiety within our audience. Also our planning skills have increased because we were able to plan out what will shot and within what time frame, unlike in our preliminary where we filmed everything at once making it much harder to do re-shots afterwards, plus we didn’t get many shots for each shot in our preliminary task due to our awful planning. Also we were more organised for our thriller opening because we had to sort out what time we were going to start shooting at and what time we were going to finish, therefore we had to organise everything. Unlike in our preliminary task where we had an hour time slot to shoot all the footage we needed, and we weren’t very organised because we hadn’t really planned out what we were going to shot. 
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