Continuity Editing Exercise

The scenario that I had to work to was a character opens a door, crosses a room and sits down in a chair opposite another character, then the character will make a few exchanges of conversation/dialogue. My scenario that me and my partner worked to was a smoking addict and a councillor.The smoking addict had an appointment to see her councillor in a polyclinic. We had to demonstrate we had a fully developed understanding of the key media language skills which consisted of: rules of thirds, 180 degree rule, match on action and shot reverse shot. 

A shot reverse shot is when you shoot to what a person is looking at then back to the  original shot. A match on action shot is when the same action is carried on all the way through two shots. The rule of thirds is when your eyes or the actors eyes are on the top horizontal to ensure characters are looking at each other a 1/3 of the way down the screen. Finally the 180 degree rule is when you always stay on one side of invisible line, only time you can break this rule is by filming while crossing the line. 

On the film I was making I worked with Jaya, our group was successful as we both had good skills including acting to bring to this project, we had individual skills which we could make use of in the film. We developed the scenario by thinking of a unique idea, instead of a commonly used one. To bring us to this idea we brain stormed ideas onto a piece of paper and decided which one would be more realistic to shoot within a given time period and how we can include the key media language skills into it. 

The storyboard was quite useful as it was a guide to how and what shots we would film. It reminded us how to film the shots and the positioning of the camera if it should be pan or tilt. As we filmed we changed around a couple of shots, for example the long shot we change to an establishing shot and we also added shots in, for example we added a over shoulder shot so that we can see the opposite person's reaction. As well as that we added close ups, so you could see the persons facial expression or a specific part of someone this gives you information of the person maybe feeling. We used a variety of shots including high angle, low angle, establishing shot and so on. 

Storyboards

We did not specifically stick to our storyboards, we cancelled out some shots because of the timing.