Our Continuity task

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Evaluation of our continuity task

Our original plan for our continuity task was to do a scene for our "Cindy" film noir that we could then use in our opening title sequence. However on the day of filming, both Megan and Harley were absent, and both our other actress we planed to play the step mother, and our other class mate who film for us last minute, made mistakes when it can to filming. we originally had two camera's one set on a desk, and one hand held. But when it came to editing, we noticed that our camera person was in all of the shots from the set camera, so we couldn't use any of them angles, breaking the 180 degrees rule. our actress forgot to sit down, and made unnecessary noises (dragging a chair across the room) that disturbed the shot. This was our original plan for the task.

We had to re-record our task last minute making it less complicated and having a simple story line to go with. Our story line was I was late to work and my boss was telling me off, but i was having a bad day, so i left. But we should have included more dialogue as I just get up and leave at the end which doesn't follow the story line looking back at it. I came up with the idea of the frame shot through the window of the door. I like that shot, but it would have made more sence if there was more of a story line to it. The clip may have looked better if we added music to it, but because of the time we haven't had a chance to find a song that suited the story line and to fiddle about with volumes. We included: match on action, an eye line match, 180 degree rule, shot reverse shot and framing, in our task to fill the brief and to see what different angles and shots we could play about with, so we are ready for filming our opening title sequence. If we had more time we would definitely film it again with a better story line and more dialogue, and we might have even taken up our original plan so we could have the chance to include it in our opening title sequence if we wanted to.

Plan for continuity task

For our plan we amped out what we had to include, and the order we we're going to do shots. I was in charge if creating a plan, being the most prevelant character, and help to edit the clips for smooth transitions between movements. Megan was the other character in our clip and her other role was to over see the editing side and suggest what we need to do to improve our clip. Harley was our camera man, and he used both a tripod and hand held methods for filming. He also edited the clip and added the subtitles to the clip.

For our task we have to include: 180 degrees rule, shot reverse shot, match on action. we also had to have someone walking to the door, walking through the door, and sitting down on a chair exchanging conversation with someone.