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?

The Influence of the Brief on my Preliminary Task and Production Task
When undertaking a project you always have an end goal which you strive to achieve, be this set by yourself, your team or an external party. In our case it was a brief which outlined to us what our tasks should aim to achieve. Below I have included copies of the prelim brief, the production brief and a flow chart explaining how they influenced our thought processes and what we learnt from the briefs.

The Preliminary Task Brief
Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.

My Preliminary Task Edit


The Production Task Brief
To produce a 2 minute opening sequence for a fiction film. All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music and audio effects from a copyright-free source. It should be clear from your sequence who the target audience is.

How did the Preliminary task influence my Production task?
When working on my preliminary task I learnt many key skills in producing video content, especially continuous video content, such as narratives. We learnt a lot of theory behind continuity theory in lessons and our preliminary task was one of the first tasks we got to actually start to apply our theory in a practical manner, such as recording and editing to achieve match-on action. The lessons learnt from the preliminary task affected our production task, all the way from pre-production research and planning, until post-production editing and grading. Below I have included a presentation to illustrate this, again I recommend viewing in full-screen.