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

From the preliminary task to the final product of our film opening sequence I have learnt a lot in the pre-production, production and post-production stages of filming.

This is the result of our preliminary task.

The prelim brief
"Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule."

The film opening brief
"To produce a 2 minute opening for a fiction film. All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright free source. It should be clear from your sequence who the target audience is."

The prelim brief was very specific as it detailed exactly what it wanted us to create apart from the actual dialogue and mis-en-scene in comparison to the film opening brief which was much more open, allowing us to show as much of our own creativity as we wanted.