Activity 7: Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

In our preliminary task, we did very basic shots and there were some mistakes that I saw when I was editing that it was too late to change. One mistake was one of the shots was not held steady. For our opening to the movie we wanted to hold all the shots steady, unless the situation demands a shot that's not steady. We also wanted to include some more advance shots and to show more camera skill. In the preliminary, I got a shot of a character walking for half of the first draft. I then later learn't that you don't have to get a shot of everything that the character does in order for the movie make sense. I took this into account when we were planning and shooting the movie. I had also learnt to use some of the software I would later use for the opening sequence which saved time in the production of the movie.