I feel that I have learnt a lot and progressed significantly since the production of our preliminary task. When our preliminary task was first started, we had little knowledge of the media subject as a whole and was basically going of our own instinct. However, we soon realised that to produce a media product, you have to be meticulous in your planning and processing to get to the final product. Personally I feel it was the thrill of actually using a camera to record our own footage, that we thought little of the storyboard, our own ideas, camera angles, locations ect. When you compare this to our two minute film opening, 'You Call It Crazy', straight away you can see drastic improvements as a lot of thought was put into it.
Throughout this process, my knowledge of technology has drastically improved as previously I had never even used a Mac computer so struggled when trying to our preliminary task. It looked extremely unprofessional as we couldnt get the right contrast with the lighting, filming outside effected our sound and it didn't have a sense of fluidity about it when it all came together. Our task had no music, very little transitions and poor editing and I have since learnt that those are key elements to a film as they are what create the atmosphere.
Thorough planning and research is vital so as you know what audience you are addressing and how your story is going to progress. For our final media product, we did a lot of research into the conventions of a comedy drama therefore enabling us to make it more appealing. I think the biggest lesson we learnt was that your first idea isn't necessarily going to be your best. Our original idea was to go down the horror/thriller genre route however as neither of us enjoyed watching these films we realised that this would be a mistake and switched to focusing on a comedy drama which proved to have successful results.
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