Evaluation - Question 7

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

Although this has already been touched upon in previous evaluation questions, the preliminary task enabled us to learn vital information about the process of creating our final video.
Initially, we shot our preliminary in one long take which made it incredibly difficult to edit through having to cut and crop clips excessively and keep importing the same clip over and over again. Having made this mistake though, we learnt from it and then ensure that when shooting our final video that each take was a new video of its own. This way we could limit the amount of time the editing process would take by it meaning we didn't have to waste time as we did in our preliminary.
Our preliminary task also taught us that the sound behind the video needed a lot more attention and focus. For this reason, we decided to make a continual soundtrack for our final product as it seemed to suit our opening, instead of limiting what our audience would be hearing through it only being footsteps or breathing. Although we considered this, a soundtrack seemed more appropriate as, through creating our own on 'Garageband', we were able to choose where tension builds and drops at each individual moment.
As well as teaching us about adjustments to make for our final product, our preliminary task made us realise how we needed to manage our time as well as introducing us to the technologies we would need to be using, as mentioned in the previous answer. Editing took a lot longer than we had first thought so from our preliminary we were able to plan ahead (in our filming schedule) and spend our time more wisely, less on filming and more on editing.