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

As you can see above this was the preliminary task I did. Looking back now I can see a lot of mistakes I made during the filming. There are some breaks in continuity the most obvious break is when the student gets up from his chair to leave a you can see that when the angle changes the actor has moved place and has started walking again. I put this down to not trim the clip at the right times. I also use too many cross fades during the conversation which takes away from the "captivating" dialogue which definitely wasn't improvised. Another error is the execution of the 180 degree rule the main problem being I didn't go 180 degrees.

When I went on to doing the final production I was not expecting the length of time the filming and editing took to complete. I also wasn't expecting the sheer amount of shots we took that didn't make it in to the final cut. I do feel that the mistakes I made in the preliminary helped me to improve my vision of continuity when filming this is because I realized that even though I got a nice range of different angles and shots it didn't always work with the movement of the actors in the scene, as some placements of the camera obstructed the actor; in this case was when the actor goes to leave I have the camera set at the door which means the actor had to stop and go back to where they started mirroring what they did as close as they possibly which in Heinz sight could have been corrected with common sense. Also it taught me to film many different shots and angles for each clip otherwise you can end up with a terrible clip with no alternative. I am very confident in saying that comparing my preliminary task to my opening sequence there is a huge improvement in editing, camera shots and continuity.