7.) What do you feel you have learnt in the progression from creating the preliminary task, to creating your media product?

 The development from the first preliminary task to my final film has been massive. My skills and techniques in film making have improved a lot, seeing the difference in quality from my preliminary task. In my first task, I had, without realizing it, broken the very important 180 degrees rule, in which both my characters were looking in the same direction. I have learned to avoid such crucial errors, and have learned how to handle the camera much better.

I have taken comparatively bolder shots in my final film, keeping all the rules in mind. I made sure the match-on-action was not inaccurate, like in the scene when Hani is stepping out of the rickshaw. The camera work has also improved in this way that in the preliminary, the camera was hand-held; making the footage very shaky and irritating. I used a tripod stand in most of the shots in the final film, but even the shots that were done hand-held (e.g. the scene when Sarah pulls away her clothes in the cupboard, the shot taken inside Sarah’s car when she was driving or the shot taken inside the rickshaw when Hani sees her self in the reflection of the mirror.)

One other huge change is that I have learned to do editing myself. I had no clue as to how editing was done in the preliminary task, as my at that time, my former partner did the editing. I have grasped the concept of editing very well and have done very tight and precise editing in my final film.

Also, the lighting has also improved from the first film. In the beginning, I was not aware of the sensitivity of the camera lens or the rule of white-balance, which is why the lighting seems much more professional than it did in the preliminary.