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

In our preliminary exercise we had to include the 180 rule, match on action, dialogue between two people and shot reserve shot. As group i don't think we found these too difficult apart from the 180 rule, where me and Ellie had to be on the right sight of the table in each shot. Now producing a film, we had many more props, objects, nosies and problems in the way however we didn't have any dialogue to deal with as we were concentrating more on emotion.
With continuity, it was harder in real life out about in the city to match each clip. The lighting became very difficult and when we first filmed we got a blue tint and then some days it would be very bright and others grey. Using the white balance and inside and outside on the cameras helped though. Also i had to keep the same costume and make-up throughout the whole film to

ensure continuity.

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Even making sure the light was on and off at the right points.
When we did our first exercise we weren't really aware and concentrating on the background sound as we were listening to the dialogue. When we came to filming we learnt that some scene, such as the office one the there was no noise and there needed to be, so we made some.
Also using the tri-pod became something that we always did, as it gave us a smooth and steadying look which looked professional. In the first exercise we didn't use a tri-pod as it didn't seem important.
When we produced our final product, we looked closer at attention to detail as we wanted everything to look right. In some cases we had to re-shoot parts that we werent happy with and learn from our previous mistakes.
The biggest challenge for us as a group was the raindrop, we learnt alot about how visually it was harder to protray a character then simply using dialogue. The messages where more hidden within the film then more obvious, they were subtext.