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

When filming our preliminary task, we had a set list of shots to include. The shots were very basic, although we did try to fo further with some trickier shots, like tracking and panning. Doing these shots however made us feel well out of our comfort zone, and they also turned out not as well as we hoped. But because we attempted these we were quickly able to learn about how to master them as we had some experience of how they worked as well as knowing how hard it actually was. There was a massive difference between the types of shot used between the two activities. During the shooting of the final product we used tracking, panning and overhead shots. We tried doing a shot while holding the camera ourselves but we decided not to use the shot when editing as it wasn't well done.
Between the time of editing the preliminary task and the final product we learnt a lot through the lessons in the editing suite as well as observing the intro sequences of other horror films. Editing the preliminary task was a very simple task, and we only used simple cuts from shot to shot. In the final product we didn't just use these, we instead used a variety of cuts. We used a fade in at the beginning of the sequence, and added text over black and the real time shots.
When we filmed the preliminary task we didn't record any sound, so when editing we couldn't rely on the voices for when to cut. This didn't make a difference however as we had the chance to record sound over the images. Tom went and found someone and together they recorded the voices and layered them over the top of the video.