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

I believe I have progressed from preliminary task to coursework successfully. The main areas I feel I have improved in are: editing in terms of sound and narrative, principle photography framing and time management.
When producing my preliminary task, time management was not a key issue. The filming was completed in lesson time and editing in an afterschool session. When it came to coursework, a lot more planning was needed as well as time to film and edit. Research into genre and audience was needed before any storyboarding and filming could be done. Therefore we needed to focus on our work and have a time limit for each area. In total we had 9 weeks to complete the pre production (research and planning), production (principle photography) and post production (editing).
I followed the pattern of the preliminary task, allowing myself the most amount of time for editing. This would only work if I kept within the time limit for research and filming. In the preliminary task, principle photography took longer than expected as our planning, particularly script work and storyboarding, did not work out as planned, leading to a change in camera angles and many takes due to the script.
I am particularly pleased with the framing of the coursework. When filming the preliminary task we went for basic camera angles and shots. Over the time period between the tasks we picked up various shots and techniques that enabled us to vary our shots and frames to create different angles of viewing the film.
Overall I believe I have learnt from the preliminary task and developed skills into the coursework.