Q7: Looking Back at your Preliminary Task, What Do You Feel You Have Learnt in the Progression from it to the Final Product?

Our preliminary task was quite amateur. Shots were unsteady, pull focus didn't work, there was talking in the background in the final production. However, these problems were all taken into account and blogged about (on the Research and Planning blog). The mistakes were then practiced and improvements made to create a final product that the group were very happy with.

Preliminary Task:

This pull focus shot was supposed to focus from the door onto Ali. However, while the door was in focus, the focus onto Ali was not quite pulled off.

This shot was the end part of the attempted pull focus. You can see that Ali was not quite in focus by the end of the shot. This wasn't what we intended, so we practised the pull focus technique.

This is bad frame positioning, with no characters, props or setting in the shot.





Final Task (Improvements):

This was the pull focus shot in our final task. As you can see it was pulled off successfully, with the start in focus (right)...

...and the end in focus. The pull focus was pulled off this time, creating the effect wanted.

This shot is well positioned, with the phone and table in focus (hiding the titles so the audience can focus on the shot), and Kirsty out of focus but still fully in shot in a close up. She is enclosed by the chairs but has nothing above her head so the shot is not claustrophobic.

This shot is also well framed, as I wanted to create the difference between the two characters and make it subliminally obvious by using the bars in the middle to separate the two characters, with the 'street/gangs' character being on the same side as the flats and the main character trying to get out of the 'street/gangs' lifestyle on the side of the school. Jotham is in a medium shot and Ali is in a long shot.