Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression to the full product?

1: Don’t film in reflective surfaces. We wanted to have a car scene where it drove up, and because it was a sunny day and the car was quite clean, it reflected back at us, and you could see our camerawoman holding the camera in that shot. We could not edit this out of the prelim later. To counter this, we removed the mirror that was originally in Paul’s garage.

2: Make sure there’s nothing in the room that could make unwanted noise. This wasn’t really a worry for our final product as we added a piano overture to the final thing, but in our prelim, we wanted a dark room brighten up with the light switch but you can hear the click from the light switch in the room we were filming in.

3: About lighting. As mentioned before, we wanted a dark room to brighten up, but because it was a sunny day outside and there were windows in the room, there was only so much blinds could do. Also, there were windows at the top of the room which we couldn’t reach, and the light from the corridor outside, so that couldn’t be controlled. In our final piece, we made sure not to get the actual source of light in the shot to prevent unwanted glares, and also we only kept the light one at one end of the room, and filmed in the other, so it was bright enough to see but could still be classed as low key lighting.