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?

With our main task which was to create a opening title sequence there were many processes we had to go throughin order to complete our media piece. The first process was to research examples of opening title sequences, the opening title sequences I researched into were City of God which is set in an urban area of Brazil, there are lots of favelas and slums featured in the extract which symbolises a poor community in which the characters live in. Also I researched into Dexter, Six Feet Under and Cold Mountain, They are all good examples as they all have many different aspects to a start of a film.


The next process was to start our storyboard planning, where we decided what our opening title sequence would be and how many of us would be in a group. We completed storyboards and took images of possible locations for our opening film scene.


The next process was to create target audience questionnaires to help decide what our media project would contain, and also created a profile of a typical target audience member. The next stage was construction in which we took images of the set for our media project and described the problems we faced such as lighting issues. 


The final process was the evaluation questions which we answered to conclude our media project and describe what we did and how we did it using a variety of technologies. Comparing this to our preliminary task we completed very little planning, only a storyboard. Then we carried out the filming straight after that without any research, construction or evaluation. This was improved on our main task as we knew what to do to make it better, such as how to operate the camera professionally and to carry out research into other opening title sequences.


For the planning a storyboard had been created for the preliminary task and also location was chosen and script also chosen, whereas in our main task we followed these steps in alot more detail for example, I created a storyboard on the computer using 'Pivot' as well as a hand-drawn one.


For the construction of the preliminary task, capture and editing was simply done with no music editing, whereas we carried out the filming of our media project in much more detail and editing was much complicated as extracts had to be cut and changed to our liking.


For the Evaluation stage little formal evaluation had been done for the preliminary task whereas in the main task questions were completed and answered that described the processes we carried out throughout the stages of development.