Our preliminary task: ‘continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a ...

Preliminary task:

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Our preliminary task:

‘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.

The task should demonstrate match on action, shot reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.’

Match on action:

A film editing technique whereby the editor cuts from one shot to another that matches the first’s action.

180 degree rule:

When you film a scene using separate shots, it's important that people understand where everything in the scene is. The 180 degree rule ensures this as you only film within a semicircle as opposed to 360 degrees.

Shot reverse shot:

A technique where one character is shown looking at another character, and then the first is shown looking back.

Ideas and casting-

Due to the task we decided to keep our plot simple; it being our first day of sixth form, our characters greeted each other and asked how their first day was going. This also helped with casting as no matter who we chose the conversation would be realistic due to its literal nature. We decided to set it in the school’s drama studio. This meant we had a lot of open space to film in and a seating area for our characters. For the casting, we chose people we knew got on well together, who were confident and were willing to participate.

Filming-

I was particularly looking forward to the filming aspect of the project, and found it very interesting, however, I had never made a short film before so I wasn’t very sure I was doing it correctly. Despite this, I really enjoyed it, and found doing simple things, such as following a character with the camera, became easier and looked better as we went along.

Editing-

During editing, our group split into two; one half researching how to use ‘Adobe Premier Pro’ and the other using it to edit our film. I was working on the computer to edit, and at first found it very complicated and difficult to understand. Whilst we only used the very basics in order to put our various scenes together, and there are lots of improvements that could be made, by the end it had definitely gotten a bit easier to use.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3PUlMf3V5A