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

My knowledge of producing a film has grown drastically since planning, shooting and editing our preliminary task. I learned a couple of basics whilst producing my preliminary film such as the 180-degree rule, and very basic editing skills such as capturing and cutting footage.

I then went on to learn how arduous and extensive the work is to prepare just a short film. Many times we had to go back and re-think parts of our thriller due to certain things that would've been either impossible, wouldn't have looked very good or extremely hard to do. Things such as planning Mise-en-scene, lighting, and particular shots, at times, took a long time which was something that i had never taken into consideration previously.

Filming my thriller also made me aware of the difficulties in finding actors and getting everyone together at the right time to shoot. We had to rethink actors at one point, which for a time, posed as quite a problem for us. In the end we were able to use younger actors without decreasing the credibility and quality of the film which also ended up giving our film a lot more edge and made it more intriguing.

When coming to edit our thriller i found that i very soon learned many more techniques on top of those i'd learned doing my preliminary task. This may have been due to the fact that i had a large amount to edit in a short space of time which meant i had to pick up certain things very quickly. Overall i have learned a vast amount in the time between my preliminary task and my final thriller film and have become aware of the amount of effort that goes into film production.