Foundation Portfolio Evaluation: Question 7. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product? (11.03.11)

Looking back on our preliminary task, I feel that I have learnt so much about producing your own piece of work. During the progression of that task, to our opening sequence I learnt that it is harder to produce something that looks good, more than what I thought it was. This is because it's easy to visualise something in your head, but it's hard to bring that to life, and put it in a piece, making it look effective and good. In our prelim task we learnt the match on action rule, the 180 degree rule, and shot reverse shot. We was then able to take on this knowledge when producing our opening sequence, and apply it to our footage we used in this. Now we have our full finished product, I have learnt that while producing a media piece, like ours, you need to make sure you set objectives to reach your final goal. These objectives need to be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timed. This is so that you can organise, and plan out work that needs to be done to get to your final piece i.e our opening sequence. For our opening sequence, we needed to make sure that we measured and timed ourselves because we had a certain period of time to film all our footage, then a certain period of time to edit all our footage and get our final piece complete. We needed to set ourselves a piece of work we could achieve that would be specific, attainable and realistic, so that we weren't trying to produce something that was impossible.