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

Preliminary and Final Product

Progression from preliminary

~ Unlike the preliminary task, the real film opening needed more accurate editing at precise times so the scenes would flow, but the preliminary seemed more stilted e.g. at the moment 0:20 - 0:22.

~ I have learnt that music plays a very big role in the intended effect of a film because it creates the emotion, but the silent preliminary was very void of this.  If music was added from the beginning then the audience would be hinted at what the genre was.

~ Effects also play a big role because the preliminary had no effects so was rather boring.  There was nothing to engage the audience.

~ I also learned that planning something before hand will produce something which is noticeably better and it makes it easier.  The preliminary was impromptu as we shot each scene with almost no planning, but weeks of planning went into the film opening which shows through the various shots which blend evenly together and tell the story well, as well as the non-diagetic sounds.