Continuity Task

As the first project for our coursework, we were tasked with the project of filming a sequence that was roughly a one minute conversion between two people. This list below is the shots we were required to follow.
Person A walks up to a door

Handle is opened / pulled
Shot of person A walking through the door
Shot of person B sat down
Shot of person A sitting down next to them.
Shot of person A asking person B if they are ok?
Reverse shot (CU) of person B replying?
Two shot of person A and B – person B asks person A a question
Shot of person A’s reaction and answer
Shot of person B’s response.
This may be reapeated and varied as conversation develops – think
carefully about this part. The scripting is important here!
Shot of person A getting up.
Shot of person A walking away.
Shot of Person B. Person A exits through same door as entrance.

Through script editing, we made the conversation between the two people have a element of comedy, and I acted in it with a friend from another group, while Shawnee Rogers filmed the extract. The piece was filmed in the library (LRC) in our school.

Below is the copy of the Storyboard.




Addition to Continuity task.

We went out to film our continuity task, Me and my partner Shawnee were missing our third partner Lewis, so we were forced to rescript and improvise, using our brainstorm, we mocked up our location what ended up being the LRC (library) this location worked great with our filming, due to a art being shown at the time, borders blocked of certain parts, and the place was near desolate helping us dramatically with blocking exhibition g out external public sound. The place also had a great set of props, to use. With a missing member, we needed an additional actor, so we used a friend. Trying to use a extensive use of panning, and effective shots such as looking down, we filmed our piece with great ease. Shawnee on the camera, and me coordinating shots and acting, and our friend acting as well. Through this, i really understood the roles and positions within filming, and really gave me alot of experience to all together help with our final piece.

Addition to Continuity task.

After the filming process, we proceeded with editing our piece, with all our raw footage, we put into the Adobe Premiere program and dragged them into the right positions and cut clips down to size, and edited them in right positions to give a good continuity within our extract, the editing process did not take as long as i expected, and really taught me further into our the program works, allowing me to considerably help with the editing process with our final piece.

Addition to Continuity task.

The whole classes work was submitted, and we watched through each one twice, with this we were asked to examine their work, and present down points and up points about each person task, to really give each group the understanding of peer scrutiny, and with a little bit of competitively within our class, people were alot more tough on your work. Our teacher, took our comments into order, and placed a few of his own, and graded each persons work.

Our work is as follows.

Positives
We included a variety of different shots, camera angles and movements in our continuity film which were each very effective.
Long shots
Close ups
Mid shots
low angle
Tracking
Tilting
An over the shoulder view

Our teacher claimed that the sound was good, apart from times when the background noise of people got a little too much, and that framing was good, except a shot when a person walked into the room.

Negatives

Broke 180 ° rule
Different errors that need to be looked out for, the ending when you hear a loud voice in the background that should of been edited out.
Editing choice/ position of shots - needed to be more carefully thought- (TI)

Our marks ended up being a level 2, and we were graded 24 out of ** This ended up being the highest graded piece of work in the class.

I was very pleased with our piece, and learnt a significant amount from the criticism and the experience, Although we broke the 180* rule, i believe this mishap will spur us on to not to break it next time. With sound being a issue, I believe i will not only see when filming but also hear, what seemed to be a issue during the continuity task when we were filming. Mise-en-Scene will be a large factor wen filming, understanding that props are important and really create a film now, especially with things such as color, the very things that we examine when watching other films. And finally i will take into mind light and how it affects a piece of cinematography, when filming next. I am also very pleased with being the highest graded group, and this only spurs me onwards to create a great piece of work, rather than making me complacent.