Evaluation Question 7 - What do you feel you have learnt in the progression from the preliminary task to the full product?

Our knowledge and understanding of the process of filming, editing and creating a film has developed a lot since our preliminary task of 'Phone Thief'. Looking back at 'Phone Thief' , as a group we have come to the realization of the different ways that we can make a film and having a broader understanding now that we did then. We noticed things that didn't work well and things that worked well within the film, the camera angles, keeping the camera steady and creating smooth transitions between the different scenes were some aspects that we found tricky.

Because we found these tricky in the preliminary task we took extra care on these aspects when filming 'Red', I believe now this is more of a strength as we have more of an understanding of these elements. Although, We did break the 180 degree rule which was a major problem but again this added more awareness of the rules when doing 'Red' and making sure there were no mistakes with filming. Although filming could of been improved in 'Phone Thief' I believe our editing skills were of a good standard, we experimented with the use of sound and timing of using the sounds was very good. The sound used in the preliminary task may have sounded quite amateur but doing this gave us an understanding of timing and different uses of sound and being aware of diagetic sound.

The preliminary task was vital to 'Red' as without this we would not of known what our strengths and weakness's are and gives us an understanding of the challenges of making a film, we have made significant improvement from then and 'Red' shows this and we are all very proud of the outcome.