Question 7

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

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Reviewing the first ever task which I had done in Media and comparing it to the main project, I can see that all the problems which we encountered as a group have been solved in the main project; the plan was to make our main project a lot better than our Preliminary Task "Feed the Fish", and I personally believe that we have done that.

Planning: Planning the film and the project before hand is very vital for the success of the project, it enables the group and yourself to indentify the progress of the project; and allows you to control your time. A form of planning which we used in our final project but didn't use in our Preliminary Task, was creating a storyboard; I felt that the use of this storyboard helped our progress significantly and enabled us to compelete to project on time.

To ensure that the project was completed on time and we had enough time for editing the clips, we had to organise the group into several different roles; someone had to book the camera and tripod, and someone had to find the correct time and location for the shots, as well as the others editing the clips which we already had and identify which scenes need to be refilmed.

Interviewing a group of teenagers, our Focus Group, enabled us to understand what kind of film they are interested in; as our main target audience are teenagers. After completing the interview and obtaining their ideas and plans we were able to set out and complete our storyboard and make adjustments to it. This is an aspect which we did not do in our Preliminary Task, which we should have done.

To ensure that our group was happy and wanted to carry on filming, we had to keep their morale up by feeding them, playing random games, making jokes about people walking in the background of our clips and taking breaks when required. After dealing with a stressed group in the Preliminary Task, we decided that it will be neccessary to incorporate these plans.

If I had to refilm the whole project again, I would change many things; like completing the filming within the first week or two, to ensure that we have plenty of time to edit our clips and find spots which need refilming. As well as, making sure that everyone in the group will be a part of the film and not wanting to be a part of it.

When we asked people to give us the feedback on what they thought our film was on, and how well it went, we got lots of great feedback and the viewers understood our concept without us having to ask them what they think it is. One of the viewers told us that "I love that you have kept the contuinity throughout the film, as well as the mise en scene being on point."