Evaluation 07- Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

Looking back on my preliminary task I have learnt a variety of things, that I was able to incorporate into our teen angst opening sequence. With the preliminary task we very carefully focused on the the three rules when filming, that being the 180 degree rule, the shot-reverse-shot rule and the match on action rule. That was the reason behind creating this task. However, with the teen angst opening sequence we had more freedom with what we wanted and were allowed to do. We experimented with titles, and special effects, such as the non-diegetic sound effect of the type writer and the '24 hours before' individually being typed onto the screen. Or when we made the credits slide onto the screen for example when we shoot a close up of Ash's legs walking past the camera up her drive to school, and following her legs comes the credit 'Alice Nutter'. We really had to think about what we wanted to show our audience with the teen angst opening sequence, what we wanted them to get from our film and the message we wanted to put across, keeping in mind the stereotypical conventions of the teen angst genre and incorporating this into our own opening sequence. This is something we never really had to think about or really have in mind with the preliminary task, as it was just a short film practising and putting to action the three rules we had been recently taught.