7. Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

I have learnt some new editing techniques since when we did the preliminary task, and also have developed some camerawork and CGI skills in the process of achieving our goal. Also we have learnt how to use the techniques which we learnt during the preliminary task in our film making. I think it's surprising how quickly the three rules we learnt that day has become like a second nature now when they seemed so tough to pull off at the beginning.

I think we mainly used the match-on-action rule in our filming. Here is a screengrab of how we used it in the preliminary task:

This shows the character simply opening the door into the room, but the camera movement should be fluid, and should not seem strange by the audience.

In our film opening, we used the match-on-action filming on this shot of Alison walking:

I think the real film opening match-on-action camera movements seem smooth, as I'd had practice using them by then and making them well seemed more important than in the practice sessions.