Q7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learn in the progression from it to the full product?

Throughout media our preliminary task was the first thing that allowed us to properly use the camera and to learn how to use it in the best ways. Looking back to when I had to do the preliminary task to the full product I have now created with my group has been a big improvement. I feel as though I have become more confident and independent with using the camera to film many shots and getting them as in focus as possible. The reason why this improvement is obvious to me is because when was set the preliminary task I wasn't completely sure on how to use the camera and the tripod. Learning all this has definitely helped with creating our product as it has allowed me to get the shots as accurate as I can as I know what I am looking at for a in focus and effective camera shot. I have also learnt a lot about filming and the ways in which to make the scenes we create to the best of my ability. If I look back at myself during the preliminary task I wasn't so sure on what media technologies to look for, however during the progression I have learnt a lot which has helped.

Although there has been advantages to this and how I have learnt a lot there has been times when filming the full product has been difficult. From the preliminary task to now I have realised that filming isn't as easy as I thought it would be as you need to make sure that every shot is good and everything in that shot is 100% right. The reason why this has made it difficult is because when filming you forget about things that are in the shot and when it comes to putting it together it makes a major affect on the full product. At the start of filming for our full product once we put it together we noticed the shots were very shaky and weren't effective like we wanted them to be, however as a group we didn't give up here we carried on to make each shot better and better. We have had to re-film a few times which has been tricky as at the start we didn't display our storyline very accurate but from all of this I have learnt more about making the storyline as clear as possible for the audience.

Even though I have made improvements since the preliminary task I want to still improve on displaying the meanings behind storylines as effective as I can. Moreover an improvement I could make is the editing of the shots.