Preliminary Task Evaluation

 

 The overall continuity of our short film is very clear as each shot flows smoothly to      another ,however, small sections of our piece lacked continuity these include: a change in props, from a mug to plastic bottle in the date scene, Holly wearing a black cardigan in one shot to a black coat in the next, Sophie wearing a cardigan in one shot to not in the next, and finally different extras in different shots but within the same scene. These continuity errors all occurred because we filmed the same scene with various shots on multiple days meaning not every detail was completely the same.
 Apart from theses slight faults ,which go unnoticed when watching the overall film, I think this piece demonstrates continuity quite well.

 

Throughout this film, we demonstrated various editing techniques these where a match on action  when holly walked through the


door, a 180 degree rule when Sophie and Nick were talking at the table and a shot reverse shot at the start between Sophie and Holly. We used these techniques in order to create a better viewing experience for our audience as its a change from actors moving to fit the shot to the shot changing to suit the actors. There was however issues with some of these techniques, one of which being with the match on action and that the dolly shook when tracking due to an uneven floor, this could have been improved by placing down a flat surface in order to create a smooth run. Another problem was that although an 180 degree rule was used it could have been more apparent through using a pan/ camera movement.  

 

In my opinion, I think our group worked well together, as we all came up with options and all agreed with the final idea and film produced. However we weren't as organised with actors and some had other commitments during our first run of filming creating some of the continuity errors found with in the film.

 

If I was to carry out this task again, I would try to improve the continuity of the product by filming each individual scene on the same day or making sure everything was the same as the previous day of filming. I would also spend more time in terms of editing in order to bring it up to a higher standard as our film was quite jumpy due to our lack in editing skills as it was the first time our group had used the editing program.

 

In my opinion, I think we planned our film quite well as we completed all paper work needed before it e.g. storyboard, shot list so we knew what we had to do and the order in which to do it. I think in order to improve our planning we could have done a chronological list of the parts we were filming so we knew what part we were filming and when. 

 

Within our piece, we used a couple of transitions which we used instead of cuts. We used the transitions in order to create a change from the traditional jump cut and to make cuts smoother and flow more easily into different shots. However some of these transitions were quite obvious and not smooth so did not create a flow between shots.

 

During this process I have learnt a lot about how to use the basic aspects of the editing software, for example using transitions, cropping clips and adding non-diegetic sound. Apart from the basics, I haven't learnt a lot of detailed things about this software but hopefully through experimenting and using it more in the future, my skills will improve.


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