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

I feel that we have definitely come along way since our 30 second prelim task in a few months. Our targets were met from our prelim to our Opening Sequence, we filmed more efficiently, we planned everything down to the last tee and the editing was slicker.

Our prelim was filmed in the lifestyle bar in college, somewhere we did not have control over the light. The opening sequence of Renegade was a lot harder to do this as they were filmed in the dark. We wanted our opening sequence to be more adventurous than our short prelim and the lighting really helped create that tense mood and atmosphere.

During the prelim we used basic camera techniques which were: shot reverse shot, match-on-action shots and the180 degree rule.We took the skills we learned the prelim task and recreated them within our opening sequence to make it look as professional as possible. We were more adventurous with the camera and used a variety of shots and angles in the sequence.

The continuity of our film did suffer slightly as it was hard for the actors to stay in the same position for a while and the movements that had to be re-shot were not matching the previous action. The prelim made us realise that we shouldn't make the same mistakes twice. I feel me and my group have made great progress in completing Renegade as we got to explore more technological ideas and bring our pitch to life.