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

Looking back at the Preliminary task, it has taught us alot about filming and the use of camera work etc. At the beginning of the preliminary task we were taught how to use the camera's and how to film in a way that would help us obtain a good mark for our media product. One of the skills we learnt was the 180 degree rule, whereby the camera must not step over the 180 degree mark, otherwise the sense of the shot would be gone as it would look like a person has switched sides, when infact they have been stood in the same place. Our preliminary task was a sort of practice to our main task so we could get use to using the equipment, and also learn how to create a piece of a film. Our preliminary task did not show our full potenial and was not very good. There were continuity errors in our original filming and the bits of film we managed to use did not really go together, as the diologue in the clip didn't fit, and did not really make sense. We learned from these mistakes and were able to make sure this would not happen in our main task. Our preliminary task also reflected on the lack of editing skills we had, so we knew we would have to further improve these when it came to editing our main task. An example of this was using jump cuts and being able to even them out and put them in the right places. We had a little trouble with this when editing our main task; as the main protagonist is walking down a long path, there is jumpcuts. These jumpcuts had to be redone and experimented with as sometimes they didn't really flow together. This meant we had to really think about how we were going to obtain these and make them look good and allow them to flow together so we could create a good piece of film.
Some extra knowledge that we have learned post making the preliminary film are that we learned how to use the equipment properly and knew what rules to follow when trying to make a piece of film.