Looking back at the preliminary task, what do you think you have learnt from the progression from it to the full task?

Our preliminary task involved shooting one of the group members walking down the staircase in Loreto and then proceeding to the canteen. Altogether there were 16 shots; a mixture of long shots and close-ups. Some of the techniques that were used in the preliminary task, such as jump cuts, were abandoned in the main task as they did not fit our genre. However, a technique we did re-use was a match cut, and in both cases it was the protagonists feet that we used to achieve the match cut. In the main task, the match cut came when our main character was walking down the staircase inside his house.

When we filmed the preliminary, and even in the early stages of the main task, our positioning of shots did not look as professional as we hoped. We failed to manipulate mise en scene correctly to create the best possible shot. However, we believe our final piece shows good knowledge of how to properly position each shot to gain maximum effect. An example of this is the ‘hole in the door’ framed shot. We thought that this would make our character look isolated and alone. We also decided to recreate an entirely new soundtrack, replacing all original ambient sound captured when filming, with non-diegetic sound. This allowed greater control and a more creative choice for us to make in terms of the diegesis and also the quality of sound was improved. This meant that we had to source these sounds, put them as one track using Logic Pro (the timing was crucial!) as well as then dropping that onto the timeline on Final Cut Pro.