Original Brief: “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. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.”
Our first shot was a low angle shot of Jonny walking up a corridor from behind. It then cut to a an eye level shot of him coming towards the camera and up to a door in the wall. This helps to set the scene and show that before he enters the room it was only occupied with the one girl. The shot of him turning the handle was cut smoothly to a shot from inside the room of the door opening and him coming half way through the door. The continuity was crucial in this part so as not to disorientate the audience. When filming the dialogue we filmed one characters lines before filming the others and edited them into a conversational structure, we did this so that the camera would remain in the same position. Here is where we included out shot/reverse shot of the girl being spoken to, we did this to add variety from conventional over the shoulder shots. When editing we realised that one of our shots 'crossed the line' in the 180 degree rule and used Adobe Premiere Elements to flip the frame so that it was facing the right way.
As editing was the most crucial part in the construction of the film, especially being a continuity task, we used a program called Adobe Premiere Elements. This enabled us to cut frames, add effects such as slow motion or transitions and rearrange shots to create continuity. We had no problems envloving camera shake as we used a tripod for the entirety of the filming, this made a huge difference in the proffesional quality of the end result. We tried to demonstrate a variety of shots including: Low angle shot, close up, zoom out, shot/reverse shot, mid shot. We had no problems when uploading our film to youtube or onto our blogs.
Original Brief: “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. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.”
I believe that our final product met the the brief fairly closely excusing the fact that our character didnt sit down opposite another character he simply stood infront of her. We did, however, clearly demontrate the character opening a door, crossing a room and exchanging dialogue with another character.