Evaluation Q7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

From our preliminary task, I think we’ve improved especially in aspects of filming and editing.
When the preliminary was shot, through a lot of trail and error, we found that when doing shot reverse shot, you have to do one continuous shot of one person and then switch to the other, otherwise there would be sever continuity issues as we didn’t have access to two cameras. Now however, we didn’t have any continuity issues as we tried to film scenes in chronological concession instead of bits and pieces and then finding that we weren’t wearing the same clothes or things in the background had changed.
We also tried to make smoother transitions in filming by using split screens and slides instead of jump cuts and in terms of music, where the non diagetic Hip-Hop track changes into the urban tension track, we tried to make a smooth transition by fading the music out, leaving a short pause and then gradually fading the music back in.
I have also personally learned that the process of filming needs to be allowed a longer duration of time as with our final product, you have to allow for things to be filmed again and then edited again, as continuity errors were detected at the last minute. Coco was originally shown leaving the library and then in the next scene, she’s shown sitting in the classroom. This of course doesn’t demonstrate good continuity as it would appear to the audience that she has just appeared. This was re-filmed with a shot of Coco actually entering the class.

Arrangements were made to make sure we were all wearing he same clothes, a change of class extras and Deeqa taking an emergency stand in as a teacher, which worked out better.