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 a group I feel we have learnt mostly about research and its importance after the preliminary task that we did in school. This gave us a greater understanding concerning who we were catering to in our production and how we could best suit it towards them. We learnt to specify who we were targeting to narrow down the many different groups that consumed film of the horror genre. We effectively did research on the internet of the genre groups, and created a survey to accommodate our target audience. This taught us how to get qualitative information we needed to shape the style of our opening and its structure. When looking at the aspect of location we independently decided upon a suitable location to shoot our opening. In order to do this we took into consideration the convenience of being able to access the various areas, as well as the flexibility we would have to express ourselves with various planned shots and angles. This gave us our most suitable location in the least amount of time.

In the filming process, we were able to gather a lot of footage when filming which allowed us to have no re-filming needs. This however, made construction of our film more difficult when it came down to editing. We needed to be able to gauge how long each shot and scene needed to be, and it made this process all the more harder. In the end when we cut our footage to a reasonable length, we did so because, we opted to go for diverse shots and angles to include in the opening. These decisions showed what we had acquired in skills over the course of the project because it meant we were able to apply our research and construction together to produce the correct result.

On the whole I think that the skills we have learnt were not the only things necessary to completing the project, but they aided us in the presentation and quality of our work in general. I feel that my group learnt that they needed to be able to utilise the technology as best possible in order to get the most out the hard work we had done.