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

So many things! To start of with, I couldn't even name half of the shots I have used in my film back then, for example the panning shot, I would have just thought it was turning the camera. I have learnt how vital the number of different shots and angles in a film are, but more importantly that you should never use the same shot for more than 5 seconds, as the audience will then get bored and not find it as interesting. This is extremely important in horror / action films as you want to create suspense and not boredom.

Another important issue I have found since the prelim task is how important the cast is in comparison to who you want to view this film. For example, if you want an action film you do not normally want to see a pensioner walking to the tills in a supermarket, you want pure action! We have used this in our film by selecting a young blonde female for the male gaze, the teenage audience and the female audience because of romance we brought into it by her going to meet her boyfreind. More importantly, we chose a female to play the main protagonist & villain to add drama and shock in our film, as this is usually the scream queen and not the killer.

A huge issue we have had to tackle in our full product is editing, which we did very little of in our prelim task. For our main product we had to edit the sound, lightining issue, adding a blue filter, a voiceover, cutting shots, adding shots, and much more!

I have feel I have learnt a huge amount since looking back at the prelim task and the things listed above are just a number of them!