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

Looking at the preliminary task I can see that our filming techniques have changed. For the preliminary task we were restricted as we were given a list of shots that we needed to have in it, whereas for our production we were free to do as we pleased, which meant that we could come up with crazy shots like total POV for one character.

We were also told to not let the preliminary task go over 1 minute as for the production we would only be able to have a 2 minute opening. We ended up with a 5 minute long opening so had to cut most of the shots, which turned out OK because the film opening then had more jump cuts making it fit into the genre of mystery very well.

I believe the best thing we learned going from preliminary task to final production was that we had to pay attention to our target audience, as they were how we decided what shots to use and the techniques to use. If we hadn't paid attention to the audience we might not have been as successful with our production.