Looking back at your preliminary tasks, what do you feel you have learnt in the progress from it to full product?

To view our initial preliminary activities click here.

The preliminary tasks were very useful as during our first sequence as our main character (Billy) is walking through a field (match on action). We had to make sure that the audience first saw Billy walking down the end of the path and when the shot returned to Billy that he was further down the path.

Within our first sequence we also had the maid and Billy talking, we had to make sure that both characters were 180 degrees apart and that we had filmed them both so that the audience could see both the expressions of characters (shot reverse shot). It was useful that we had already learnt how to do this during our preliminary task as we had to then do it again during our filming for Devotion and knew how to do it.

Overall I feel that I learnt a lot when reconstructing our preliminary tasks in our final film, the smoothness of transition has dramatically improved from the original tasks and it is apparent in our film that we had control of every scene. As we had learnt how to do the match on action and shot reverse shot sequences before filming Devotion this saved time as we didn't need to figure out how to accomplish them on the day.