Question 7:What do you feel you have learnt in the progression from your preliminary task to your final production?By Kurt Hillson

0Looking back at my Preliminary product, I feel that my final media product for my film shows a significant improvement. I have learnt how to make my products look much better and also how to appeal to my target audience. I am overall pleased with the outcome of my final product and I think it represents the thriller genre of film well and therefore appeals to my target audience.

0The problems with my preliminary film were the following:

0The clips were cut really badly and you can tell when the actors were speaking, there was a slight pause.

0There was hardly any sound at all, apart from the actors speaking and a door opening and closing, that was it in terms of sound.

0The setting wasn’t right with the script. The film was set in a media office.

0The script wasn’t well written and the characters had hardly any emphasis.

0 The ways in which I have improved my front cover for my music magazine are:

0 I introduced a title with its own mini sequence. It stands out and gives off a professional feel to it. I also added in the actors names and directors etc. into the film to give it that extra bit of depth into the films makers.

0 The text is put in its own shot which its own sequence and special effects. The letters are bold and easy to see.

0 This lets the audience see who was involved in the film with complete attention, then when the filmed clips come on you have your attention on that. I believe that putting the titles overlapping the shots distracts the audience, so by putting both on a separate shot then the audience can see both clearly.

0My first task was to learn and study the different camera angles and editing skills to help me through the rest of the course. I have learnt, for example, the Shot Reverse Shot; to name only one. This is a technique in which one character is looking at another character, then the other character is shown looking at the original character. Because the characters are shown looking in each others directions, it looks like they are looking at each other.