Question 7: Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in progression from it to the full product?

Making the opening sequence for the movie Vanish was such an educational experience. I as the director learnt a lot from the planning and research up to this stage the evaluation.

During the research and planning we were assigned to analyse different horror movies, looking at different things such as

During this period i learnt about what title would match horror movies, and also from the picture analysis l learnt the type of things that normally take place in the horror movies, as displayed in the picture above.

We also did the preliminary task.

On the preliminary task, the assignment sheet stated the kind of things that were gonna be marked and these included

• I80 Degree Rule - from this l learnt how to shoot on the right angles, but not crossing the 180 degree line, and this will be easy to edit. If the 180 degree rule is broken, it will result to the audience getting confused.

The other things l learnt is continuity editing. This is what's used in most movies, and at the same time hard cut and jump cuts for horror movies.