The preliminary task is a continuity editing task which is basically filming and editing someone opening a door, crossing a room/walking down a corridor, sitting down with another person and having a conversation. This will show a match on action, a shot-reverse shot and the 180 degree rule, also including a cut in and cut away.
Continuity Editing
Continuity editing is used in television and film to smooth over the discontinuity of the editing process, it is ‘invisible’ editing that cannot be seen by the audience, this process includes things like match on action and the 180 degree rule.
Match on action is when a movement occurs, then the shot is cut, the movement continues in a different shot allowing the scene to appear completely smooth and the cut is almost unnoticable to the audience.
As demonstrated in this example video.
http://www.youtube.com/v/BRRavGgX1pw
The 180 degree rule is a film making rule in continuity editing that states that the two characters should always appear on the same side of the screen (to the audience), this is done by only filming 180 degrees left and right, for example, if you were filming a conversation, and you crossed the 180 degree line, it would appear to the audience as if both characters were on the same side of the screen.
The correct use of the 180 degree rule is demonstrated below in this example video.
http://www.youtube.com/v/IiIUwsQV2uURisk Assessment
Things that could go wrong:
Trip with camera (perhaps whilst walking backwards to film)
Drop camera
Fall down stairs whilst filming
Break camera
Drop camera in puddle (electrocution)
Trip over tripod
We filmed near a construction area, so avoid hazards
Don't lick the batteries
How we prepared for filming
We found a location in college which was suitable for our film, we chose this location because it suited our needs for filming, it looked how we wanted it to and it was a safe and realistic place to film. We created a storyboard which covered the following events: Hannah walking through a construction site mission impossible style, walking sneakily down the corridor, looking around, running down the corridor, entering a room (which was our eye-line match and match on action), a room for a conversation (this is where we filmed our cutaway). We decided to have a student rolling her eyes as our cutaway as it suited the scene and made the story easier to understand.
Production
Overall filming went well, with a few problems with the camera and the areas in which we were able to use. The storyboard helped as it allowed us to see which shots we needed to film and where. We had trouble with the camera and the weather stopped us from filming outside as much as we would have liked, however we slightly modified to scene to resolve this. During this project we learnt quite a lot about filming and planning, about how important it is to plan and that you need more than one shot in order to create an effective match on action.
You have used some of the conventions of continuity editing, so this is ok for a first exercise. However, I think you need to work on framing, and I would prefer to see some faster paced editing here. There are also a couple of jump cuts, which is a big problem in a continuity exercise! I hope you've learned from the activity.
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