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Various planning for the main task

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No planning for the preliminary

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During the planning for our preliminary task we hadn't thought through what we were going to put in our video properly and we hadn't done any of the necessary planning which would have helped us to create a better end product. The storyboards and research were of a poor standard and we hadn't done anything of relevance which could have helped us make a better quality video. There were no assigned roles within the group to help get things done more efficiently and our organisation skills weren't of a good standard. However, in our main task we were able to come together as a group and split up planning and research equally between each of us so the task could move along swiftly and more efficiently. This meant that we were able to improve our planning and research skills and create well thought out storyboards, filming schedules, equipment lists, relevant research into thrillers and so on, which would help us to work on our final thriller opening. Therefore, we were able to refer back to our research and planning when creating our thriller opening as we had completed all the necessary work, and more, which could give us ideas and tips we might have needed when filming and editing it. Whereas in our preliminary task we had almost nothing to fall back on if we had run out of ideas or had decided we didn't like it as there was a lack of organisation and planning. Therefore, we had learned that improving our planning, research and organisation skills were just as important as the actual thriller itself because without any of them we would not have been able to produce ideas of what our thriller should include and how our thriller should look.

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Preliminary task editing

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Main task editing

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During our preliminary task we had limited understanding of the editing software which lead to the task being more about learning how to use the software rather than being able to use it to improve the quality of our video, which ultimately meant that the editing in our first task was not well thought out and did not look good, as you can tell from the title frame on the left. Also, the editing we had done didn't match with the genre of the video which made the video dull and plain. However, in our main task we had taken the understanding which we had gained from the preliminary task and we were able to create better titles, include more effects that would fit the opening's genre, and add in transitions, which we hadn't used before. This helped to improve our task as we were able to make the opening look like more of a thriller by adding darker effects onto the frames and including a range of blurred effects to make the scenes around more mysterious. With these we made sure we tried a range of effects and transitions to create the best thriller like opening we could, whereas in the preliminary task we didn't look for relevance when adding these to the video but just for experimentation. So, with the added understanding and the ability to change effects, we were able to create a more effective thriller opening which had relevant features added to it instead of random, experimental ones.

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While filming the preliminary task we used low quality cameras which were constantly blurred, even if we didn’t want them to be, and would not focus properly in order for us to gain the best effect for our task. This made our preliminary task look badly edited as it was constant throughout the whole of the video. However, while filming the main task we were able to use higher quality cameras which contained lenses that allowed us to use zoom features and blurred/focus effects and we were able to control them when we needed to use these features instead of having it as a dominant feature throughout the video. This meant that we were able to have a better quality video as it made the picture clearer and almost up to a HD standard. Therefore, we had learnt to look for better quality in camera when choosing which ones to use for our filming which helped create a better picture and make our thriller look clearer and a lot more effective.

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There are clear differences and improvements when comparing the preliminary task to our main task as in our preliminary task we had only learnt how to use limited techniques when it came to using the cameras and editing software as we were only just getting used to using the technology because we had never used them before. Whereas, in our main task we had taken the things we had learnt we were able to explore more advanced techniques in order to improve the quality of our task.

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Main task title

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Preliminary task title