Evaluation Question 7

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

If i was to be honest i would say that our preliminary task was much easier to structure and plan out compared to our production of 'Intrusion'. I thought this because in the making of Intrusion, we would do it one night, which we (Me and Alex), would think is good, but then the next day when we would show our teacher, it would be wrong and we would have to go and 
re-film. Which i thought was a bit stressful and we also had to give up hours of our free/spare time to complete this production but all in all i really enjoyed filming it!. 
      
          I had learned a lot of new things in the preliminary task that i did not know before, for instance how to put up the tripod, how to set the camera up on the tripod, which button to press to record/stop the film, that you had to rewind the camera to the beginning of the film before you could start recording the new footage and how to upload the footage on to 'Imovie'.

  Also the time it took to complete each task was completely different, with the preliminary task it took us less than 4 hours to complete, but with the production of Intrusion it took us more than 3-4 months to complete which was a staggering amount compared to the continuity piece, which you can see on my blog.

       The amount of things that went wrong in our production of 'Intrusion' were unbelievable, the first thing that went wrong was, when we had decided our roles and our film idea there were three people in our group, but then the third person in our group left Media Studies, so we had to think of a new idea and new roles considering that there was only two of us. So we went with the idea of a stalker thriller, we based our ideas on the Television series 'The Fall'. We planned to do it on one of my relatives farm, but that was another thing that went wrong. We also planned to have a woman in the actual film but also we didn't have a woman living with us, and we couldn't draft one in at such late notice. But in the film the roles were the camera man (Alex) and the main character of 'Harry'. We decided the roles pretty quickly because Alex didn't want to be the main character so i stepped up to take the lead.