Question 7: "Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?"

Looking back at previous tasks, I feel as though I have drastically improved my knowledge of media technologies, media terminology, my ability to use different camera shots and angles, and my widened ability to use different softwares to edit my pieces. Also, I now post a lot more on my blog than what I did at the start of the course, and I am a lot more creative and descriptive with my posts.

Before studying Media at AS, I had never used Adobe Premiere, and I wasn't very confident when using it towards the start of the course. However, I am now able to confidently use this software and I know a lot more features and hidden features than I did before.

When filming our first project, we were given a camera and a list of shots to use and we were told to 'do our own thing', which is why they weren't very high quality. However, this helped me to become familiar with the technology we would be using over the next year (and the year to come) and I feel this is why my knowledge of above listed is so broad. It also gave me the confidence to experiment with different camera shots and angles, but also with different editing techniques.

After being given several different tasks and projects to shoot in the past 5/6 months, I have been able to use these newly-learned skills and use them when filming and editing my final project - False Impressions. The small tasks building up to the final project were very helpful as each taught us a small part of how to put together a full film - a continuity task, a script task, a storyboard task, and a few more.

Just as a few initial points as to what I would do differently if I reshot my final project are:

• I would use actors of the correct age for the characters as this would help the audience to distinguish between the two, and it would make the representation of them a lot more obvious to the audience.
• I would take more shots of each scene so that I had a wider range of clips to choose from when editing my project. This would allow me to change the clip I use at last minute if I need to improve my piece.
• I would also use a wider range of shots and angles in my camerawork, and make my shots more steady. This would give my piece a more professional look and I would be able to 'show off' a bit more with what I've learned over the past 6 months.
• I would also make my sound a lot more clearer, possibly by using a microphone or holding the camera closer to the actors.
• Finally, I would update my blog more in the lead-up to the reveal of the film, possibly with more behind-the-scenes footage for the audience.

However, overall, I am very happy with my final piece and I have put a lot of time and effort into the filming and editing and I think it all payed off.