Preliminary task review

When we originally set out for our preliminary task we were in a large group of six. We stayed in this group for filming but broke off into a smaller group with Gemma for editing. We had never used iMovie before and admittedly struggled at first with it, but after a tutorial we got used to it and realised it is a very simple program to use. We spent a while editing the preliminary project but unfortunately when opened towards the end of the time given to complete the task we found that a lot of our editing had been undone and only the project itself was left without editing. We did not have time to add sounds or a lot of other features we had originally put in and so we felt it was incomplete.

When set the task we told we were to set it in real time so there was continuous motion of film with no breaks of time. I think we did this well and kept the film flowing smoothly with a few little jumps but nothing majorly recognisable. Light differences was a key issue with out prelim because we filmed two different times using the same room, but the second time was much brighter than the first. We tried to fix the light variation but even though less visible the difference in light was still rather noticeable. The lack of sound also took away a lot of the tension and suspense we desired to be in our prelim.

Although our preliminary task was a bit of a failure we learnt a lot from the mistakes we made and this will be shown in our future work.