Evaluation Q7. Looking back at your preliminary task what do I feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

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Research

When first starting out with our preliminary we learnt about how to use Final Cut Pro in order to help edit our films and how to use the camera in the right way do we didn't end up breaking or damaging them. We did not do any further development of research in this task therefore my skills was halted. Whereas when we came to doing our final opening scene a lot of research was done before filming our shots as it gave us a guideline of what we needed to do once we started filming.

• Camera tutorial was given to us developing our knowledge on 180 degrees rule, Thirds Rule and how to match cut properly and walk out of frame so we can change scenes.
• We also research different teen films watching movies such as Bling Ring, Break Fast Club as well as doing independent research on teen films in general and how we could interpret their conventions into our openings
• We looked at binary oppositions that was used in teen films as well as discussing why they were used 
• Interviews members of the public and friends on thoughts and feeling on teen films and what they would like included in teen films this gave us general knowledge of what the public likes so we could adapt it into our film opening
• Titles we made sure that we included titles at the beginning of the film opening also making sure that they were in order following the conventions of teen film 

Since doing the prelim to my final opening I had  improved massively when researching as we made sure we had lots of research and knowledge of what people enjoy in teen films this gave us a idea of what to include in our teen film openings and how we could better them from our rough cut copy. 

Pre Planning 

In pre planning we had props such as board, glasses, phone and a ID card to give off a office look as the prelim was based in a hotel, When filming our film opening we got inspiration for other movies and brainstormed them to help us guideline our story we also made sure that props and costume were valued equaling the characters out and representing the binary opposition. From our pitch we gained feedback in how to improve our film before the deadline to make it better this was a good idea as it showed us what else we needed to have. Our pre planning has improved as it was more advanced as we had a storyboard to help give visual aspect of the film so it was less time consuming when filming as we had guidance.