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

Looking back at our preliminary task I have found that the quality of work has improved a lot as I gained more knowledge of the program that we used (final cut express). There are many improvements and developments in the editing that we have done such as using filters, colour correction, slowing down and speeding up and using more complex tools instead of the basic ones giving a better result.

When I edited the actual title itself it took many layers and required me to use my common sense to create the effect as there wasn't a preset setting for what I wanted. I had to cut insert each letter in one at a time, shrink the letters and align them so that it looked professional. After this I had to add the effect I wanted individually on to each and I believe that it has worked quite well.

We had a slight problem as we filmed the newspaper at the end in different locations meaning that the lighting didn't match. to get around this issue I used the colour correction tool and changed it accordingly. It wasn't great, however it was better than how it started and I am pleased at how I used the editing to resurrect this problem.

On some of the clips we had to brighten or darken using filters because the shots were either too bright or too dark and I feel that we have done this quite effectively. Other edits we had to make were cutting out the sound which we didn't know how to do in the preliminary task.

On the other hand i believe the biggest improvements that we made was the cinematography. In our AS task we used more varied shots from close to far and the shots were far more steady. Also in our preliminary there were a few shots where the mise en scene wasn't very good for example the camera bag was in the shot and in our real task this doesn't happen.

As you can see next to the actor(Frankie Duck)'s left shoulder you can see the bags on the table.