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

 Through out the project i feel i have grasped a better understanding of the editing programme and how to use the cameras and i feel alot more confident and knowledgable about the whole process. As a team we have learnt to experiment with different shot types such as high angle shots (although they didnt appear in our final 2 minute opening). In our film we had to make a line 180 degree rule to create shot reverse shot in the interview scene between kate and the interviewer, to do this we should have used floor markings so we knew where to place the camera but unfortunatley this didnt occur to us at the time, whereas in our pre-liminary task we didnt experiment with shots like this and didnt think about how it would look when it came to editing it and so stuck to using the standard shot types and lengths. We also used match on action where shelby and rebeccas characters arehaving an argument, to do this we had to improve our editing skills to make sure that it competely matched and flowed as the camera shot changed. Not only did we vary our shot types and angles we also used a microphone in our final film which we didnt use before in our preliminary task. We also watched out for any mistakes and continuity errors like we had in our preliminary task e.g the two flushes in the toilets. We did experience this at one point though whn we originally uploaded our 2 minute opening onto youtube and we had mixed up some shots where we had made shots so it didnt match up. Overall i think we have improved alot since our preliminary task and the research and planning we did also helped as this included creating a script, a shot list of what type of shots we were going to use and a storyboard so everything was alot me organised and it elt like we were more incontroll of what we were doing and that we knew what we wanted to create.