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

Looking back on my preliminary task, I feel that I have made several advancements. The preliminary task helped develop basic camera skills and gave me a further understanding of basic camera shots.

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The preliminary task was our first official media product and was also our first group task, it showed us what working in a group was like and how we would allocate tasks to each member of the group. It also gave us experience in using the editing software "Imovie" on the Apple Macs and in developing storyboards. We experimented with many effects and transitions but decided not use them in the final version of the preliminary task, this made us aware of what is available in the final task.

The main shots that were used and took the most practice was the"shot reverse shot" and "match on action" shots.

In the main task, before we filmed the actual opening a lot of planning was done to ensure we had a good understanding of the task at hand.

• Research in to the genre:

A lot of the research was in to the main conventions of thrillers and how directors from the genre have had an affect. We established the main problems with thrillers, such as being confused with horrors.

• Producing storyboards:

Creating the storyboards was an important part of the planning process, it meant that we knew exactly what shots we needed to capture, how we would edit them and how they would piece together. Filming can be a stressful and unorganised process, storyboards help make it a smooth and confident process.

I felt that a few specific shot types have been improved:

• Match on action:

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• Focus Pull:

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I felt our end product successfully fulfilled the task given to us; it is approximately 2 minutes long, it includes some generics of a thriller whilst also challenging some conventions, it had titles/credits and is the opening to a thriller film not the whole film itself.

We showed our opening to a large audience and received a lot of feedback from surveys, some feedback was typed in an electronic survey and is shown below:

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The actual survey can be found here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QX9LSHY