Evaluation

The finished product is great. Afew hickups here and there. This is mainly due to the filming itself. I've learnt that contiunity editing works and is straight forward. But only if you have made a decent storyboard and plan.

Post Production

Editing went smoothly, apart from a section where a cut away didn't work out. We had to fill the 'jump' with another scene. I learnt to film longer and add a couple more seconds on the end of each scene.

Finished Product - Video

Production

The filming went fairly well. I filmed each scene twice, leaving a couple of seconds on the end of each take. This helps the editing process.

The storyboard was used as a basic guideline and helped within the filming production but the script was more of a detailed guideline.

A few things did go wrong, mainly in the acting department.

Pre-production tasks

Detailed Risk Assessment

Tripod – Carrying tripod. Carrying tripod on shoulder.

Violent scene – pushing one down the stairs, don't die. Push with little force. Hold on to banister in case of actual fall.

Avoid – People guiding those with the tripod. Checking before opening a door.

Preparation in filming

We decided the location and based it around college. We created a story board and planned out the sequence of events. We gave different roles out within the group. We made the script. Set up the equipment.

Photo's / Screenshots

These are the most important scenes within the task at hand. They represent each section of continuity editing.



Continuity Editing

Continuity editing: is a style of editing, in narratives within cinema and television. The purpose of continuity editing is to smooth over the space and time between shots in the editing process. To establish a logical connectivity between shots.


180 degree rule: is where the camera flicks between two people or objects. For example if two people are engaged in conversation the camera will face the person who is talking, then when the next person talks it faces him/her.


Match on action: is where gesture matchs between to shots. For example for opening a door, there might be a long shot to show a person heading towards a door. Then the next shot zooms into the person opening the door.

Eyeline match:  is where for example someone looks up at a poster on the wall and in the next shot the camera shows the poster.

Intro to preliminary task

Preliminary exercise example: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.