Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have

learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

By Naima Siddika Kamal

Planning • The issues which had occurred during planning was the

casting. We had initially contacted some actors to take part in our media project but were unable to contact them. So as a result of this we had to get other actors at the last minute and it was not as planned out as we had hoped. From this experience I have learnt I should not only rely on certain actors and always have a backup.

• Another issue was the costumes since we were unable to get the actors which we had chosen we had not really focused on the costumes. However since our media product was set in a college and it was not something which was a concern as the actors had to wear normal college attire.

Construction• On the day of filming we were not able to get

actors and had to use people in college. Since we filmed during lunchtime the background noise is loud and as a result of this the sound is not as clear as we would have hoped. However we did use the sound to our advantage and used it as ambient noise since our media product is set in a college.

• On the second day of shooting whilst filming we had realised that the microphone was faulty but we had to make do with the sound it had produced.

Programs• I had to use Final Motion in order to create

the title sequence. It was my first time using this program so I had to use YouTube tutorials in order to learn how to create effective titles for my media product. I had to experiment with different colours and styles in order to get the final product

• I did attempt to use Final Cut for editing however I found that it would be more appropriate if another member of my team had edited. I knew the basics of final cut such as editing some clips by adding transitions but I was not confident with inputting sound.

Preliminary task

• From the preliminary task I had already learnt how to set up equipment and since I was the camera person I was able to do various shots. However since the preliminary task did not require much planning I was quite astounded at all the planning and detail which had to go in shooting the main task.