Preliminary task and evaluation

This is our final product for the preliminary task. The process was one of which we learned a lot from, one of the main points being effective planning is of upmost importance when planning a project like this. Although we did draw up a storyboard and stuck to it quite strictly, it would have also been useful to note down how we were going to sort out the more technical aspects of our video, for example how we were going to keep the lighting and sound levels consistent throughout the video, especially as the filming took more than one day to complete. We had some issues with the settings on our camera, and as a result some of the colouring on the video is slightly distorted and not how we would like for it to be- this is something that we should have checked before the filming and therefore could have been prevented. It would also have been useful to do extra research into how to place a soundtrack onto a video effectively as we wasted quite a bit of time trying to figure out how to do this when we could have otherwise focused on further developing our editing skills.
Working in a team meant that the task got done much more quickly than executing the project individually, however there were differences in terms of editing styles and deciding on what the narrative of the project should be. This resulted in people having to compromise some of their ideas for the best interest of getting the whole project done, as well as this the deliberation took up some time that could have otherwise gone into filming and editing.
Overall we have produced a good final product and learned a lot about how to successfully plan, film, and edit a short piece of film and these skills will be useful when completing our final project.