1) Filming the initial continuity task was exciting but daunting, as the filmmaker had never held a camera before. 2) Through the process, the filmmaker learned conventions like the 180 degree rule and match on action, but found putting them into practice less easy than expected. 3) Comparing the continuity task to the final film, there is a huge difference in editing quality, sound quality, and shot awareness, though the task provided a fun learning experience and starting point for expectations on the final project.

1. Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to
the full product?
When it came to filming the continuity video I was excited and petrified at the same time. I had
never attempted to make any type of film before, in fact I had never even held a camera (true story)
and I had no idea how, well not exactly HARD in the general sense but more daunting and “difficult”
it would turn out to be. But at least I got it done eventually 
It didn’t take me long to rasp the rules and conventions and then purposely defy them for reasons
explained earlier, but putting them into practice is what I found less easy than I originally thought.
Some things that took me a while to get my head around were things like the 180 degree rule, match
on action, shot reverse shot etc, but I think I got there and made something special by the end of my
shooting.
For sound in the final film I went in a different direction. I think it better matched my style, but I
stood firm on my no speech idea that I used in both, and instead just kept the natural noises of the
area and had a backing track throughout. Like my modern take on a silent movie. Having filmed the
final film on a better quality camera helped me to pick up better quality footage and natural sound
like laughs and when the teens play claps game, which is more suitable to the type of movie I’m
producing.
Filming the continuity task turned out to be a lot of fun, and monotonously hard. But at the end I
was able to do achieve something which I personally thought was at a decent standard I didn’t think
I would get to. When I did the first shoot of the task, I spent over 30 minutesplanning and scripting
and about another hrfilming something which was barely a minute long. This is when I realised that I
wasn’t even close to being prepared for the final task.
The initial idea of filming didn’t seem too bad, but having to find the right angle and light in the
building we were using was hard, so in the end I settle for a bath of light in the hopes it could pass
for a cheap gangster/comedy sketch. My next major issue came when I copied the files over to the
computer to edit. It took an impossibly long to transfer from IMovie into Final Cut, so for the
purposes of this task I settled on using I movie. Something I would later regret.
When comparing the continuity task to the final film, there is a HUGE difference in editing quality
along with the sound and general awareness of what is happening in the shot. The Task was a decent
and admittedly fun learning experience, and a nice starting point to set ground rules and
expectations for the film. And may I just say I Aced my goals for that final film. Well I didn’t but I
liked it fine 