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

I feel I have learnt a lot since our preliminary task in terms of organisation, and wanting the best quality end finish we possibly could achieve. In our preliminary, we only drew a storyboard, which we didn’t really keep too, and filmed it straight away with not much thought going into it. Whereas this time round, we drew our story board, then developed it into a digital story board, thought about potential shots and then filmed it. We found ourselves being very picky with our shots. For example, we filmed in the woods on a very cold and rainy day, which made everything very muddy and unpleasant. I had to play the part of Rose who was dressed in a short dress with no coat on, in minus temperatures, and I was not happy. But we had to act professional, and every time we shot a scene, and we decided it wasn’t good enough, we would re-shoot until we had exactly what we wanted. Everyone was freezing cold but we wanted the best we could possibly achieve. As we had to do this in our free time, we found it hard to arrange a certain day to film, because it would always turn out one of use would be busy, so this was one of the things we could improve on in the future; to organise specific days in advance, or even stick directly to our shooting schedule.

We also found ourselves taking on board criticisms from other people, and amending things over and over to get the best we could. For example we found the credits hard to place because we had decided to show them over the film as it played, so we found ourselves moving them about over and over until they fitted somewhere where it looked right.