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

Since the preliminary task, we greatly increased our focus on sound and mise en scene, both of which were somewhat neglected. We developed and planned the costumes to suit the characters, scouted more accurate locations, made sure everything fit the film's versimilitude, as well as paying attention to small details, such as the tape cross on the wall behind the antagonist, despite it receiving barely a second of screen time. We were also overly careful, it turned out, bring a mattress and arranging the room to look as though a homeless person were squatting there, even though the room was barely seen in shot, and not at all in the case of the mattress. 

  In terms of lighting, we actually used specific lighting, rather than using natural light as we did with the preliminary task. We used a very dramatic chiaroscuro down-lighting effect during the antagonist's speech, which vastly improved the look and affect of the film.

  With the sound, we focused again on the small details, including a specific soundtrack, as well as small, non-diegetic rising sounds to create a more suspenseful atmosphere, as well as creating an original soundtrack, which was more specifically designed to our needs.

  Mostly, we learnt from our progression to final project the value of the small details in the film-making process and how even though during the process of film-making, they may seem insignificant and perhaps not even useful, they all add up and result in a much more professional and better film, with even the mattress possibly making a difference to my acting by creating the atmosphere, although that may be a bit of a stretch.