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

During the time when we were doing the preliminary task we didn't plan it or anything we just straight away went in to it and improvised on what we though would be right and what would look good. So in the real opening scene we took are time sat down and thought about what we were doing. This helped us come up with good clear ideas which we all agreed on and we all new what we were doing to help create this opening scene.

In our discussion locations and genre were disscused and we came up with that the genre of the film was going to be horror and that the location was going to be the park, where we was going to film all of our opening scene. We then came up with the days that we were going to go out and film and what date we wanted to be finished by so we could then edit it together.

During the preliminary task we didn't really have a genre so we couldn't relate the characters to the genre, but on the main task we made a decision on what genre we were doing so we could relate the characters to the genre. We did alot of research on different films which are to do with the horror genre for example "The Strangers" and "The Grudge", in the strangers we used the masks that are on the masked men and put them on our masked man to make the film much more scary.

During the making of our opening scene we found out that we used a lot more camera shots in the main task then the preliminary task, but some of the camera shots that were in the preliminary task were also used in the main task. We used the long shot in the preliminary task and put it in to the main task but in the main task we think that we improved this shot, because we used it in a different way which is whilst the two girls were running down the stairs we had a long shot of them running then followed them whilst they ran past the camera which looked better than how it was used on the preliminary task. In the preliminary task we had a written task that we had to do but in the main task we were free to do whatever we want so we could do as many shots as we want and whatever shots we wanted to do but in the preliminary task we were restricted so we had to do what we could do instead of doing all we want to do.

Finally, in the preliminary task we found out alot of good information about how to put together an opening scene we found out about different camera shots and learnt about how to use a genre and how to find out the solutions to problems that came our way.