The purpose of this first task was to help us, as students to understand the importance of continuity editing of short clips to make them fit well together, we understood that this has a great deal of effect when it comes to the enjoyment of the film. This task also helped us understand the key rules of match on action, the 180 degree rule, and shot reverse shot, using these helped us gather an understanding of how to use them.
What difficulties did you face?
We had difficulties slotting the shots together to create continuity as when we were filming, we didn't understand that the shots would look weird, if we had hoods up in one shot then down in another, so we had to film the shots multiple times to make sure they matched up in continuity with the other shots. The conversation shots had to be re-filmed because they didn't look right as we didn't follow the 180 degree rule. We also had an idea to show the character blinking in the POV shot, this was achieved but didn't look as good as we hoped, if we were to film and edit this sequence again we would develop this to try and make it look more professional.
How did you plan out the shots?
We spoke in a group about how we wanted the story line to go, we then developed this by writing a storyboard on how the camera angles would work and we considered the 180-Degree rule, match on match action and shot reverse shot. we then planned the dialogue of the film, which wasn't too complicated, this used over the shoulder shots, which we thought would be an effective way to make the audience feel involved in the film. After this, we discussed how we would make the film more emotive and thrilling by adding music and editing in post production. We also planned to take the shots more than once, so we could choose which one fitted better in continuity editing, and then eventually it would look better in the final stages and in the film its self.
What did you learn about continuity editing?
We learnt that all the shots had to flow smoothly for the film to look good in sequence, and for it to work properly, this is because if the film shows a hand on the door, then, a close up with the hand approaching the door again, this will look rubbish to the audience, which will make the film a lot worse immediately. You need to make the audience know that continuity editing was thought about when editing the film. we also learnt that one of the main problems of editing is trying to make the film to not look really choppy and not well edited.
What did you learn about the demands of filming a sequence?
You have to plan the shots on a storyboard to make sure you don't mess up and waste time filming the first set of shots for your film, it also helps to get the shots right the first time so you don't waste time filming the shots again with time you could be editing to get better continuity, this creates a time shortage, that you are racing against to get your film in on time, this can lead to panicking and losing quality in the editing of the shots, an example of this with our film is the blinks in the POV shot, for this we only had a short amount of time to achieve this in the editing, this meant that the quality of it was decreased
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