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

I feel that since the preliminary task I have learnt more media techniques used in productions, e.g conventions and camera shots typical of a thriller. I also feel that I am more confident in using the Apple Macs, especially on iMovie which lead me to now feel that I can successfully create a media product that is well edited with good usage of transitions, zooms and fading. I think this is important as I was still unsure on editing when I started working on my thriller opening as I hadn’t done much on iMovie previously. I have also learnt that media products do not always work out as originally intended due to changes in circumstance, for example my group and I had to change some of our ideas on the day of filming due to that fact we couldn’t get to the place we had originally planned to do our filming, the ideas we changed were the protagonist finding the girls coat and having a flashback trigger by that we decided to change that to his flashback being brought on by being knocked unconscious, also we had planned to have our antagonist and protagonist walking along a dark path way near a stream but we changed this to a field as that is what we had available on our shooting day, as well as this we also changed who we had planned to play the female in the production, originally it was supposed to be me but as the filming of the flashback scenes was completed on a different day we replaced me with Amy. I feel that I have learnt how to communicate my ideas for the opening to the group better than I had on the preliminary task and that the group as a whole were better and exchanging ideas about what did and didn’t want included in out opening.