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.

Our final piece

Continuity Preliminary task: Shot list

Shot 1 Shot behind when Jonny is walking (low angle shot)

Shot 2 Jonny walking, shot from the front (medium shot, eye level)

Shot 3 Door knob being turned (extreme close up)

Shot 4 Cuts to behind katie, shot of hands tied up from behind the chair. The camera then pans around right towards the door.

Shot 5 Mid shot of Jonny (the abductor)

Shot 6 Over the shoulder shot of the abductor over the shoulder of the prisoner.

Shot 7 Shot-reverse shots of Jonny and Katie speaking (Jonny Left/ Katie Right) Dialogue takes place here.

Shot 8 Jonny leaves the room. (Long shot)

Continuity preliminary task: Script

To set the scene: Jonny is a capturer and Katie is the one being captured.

Jonny:[Shouting] Remember me!
(pause)
[quieter, persuasive] Now then, are you ready to talk? Or will I have to bring in Big Bob to make you!

Katie:[angry] I will never talk, not to you scum.

Jonny:[annoyed but trying to stay calm] Well, there is a price on your head but this may just magically disappear all forgotten if! You give me or my friends some information.

Katie:[definant] I will not utter a word even if it’s my last breath.

Jonny: [Irritated] So be it. I see a more vigilant technique is needed! I think I will bring in big bob to make your acquaintance. Then you might change your mind my dear.

Film making techniques

180 Degree Rule
This technique is crucial in film making and without it you will break the flow of the scene and disorientate the viewer.
The basic idea is that each character must stay on the same sides of the frame at all times. For example: if in a dialogue situation a man and woman were sitting at opposite sides of a table and the camera was position so that the woman was on the right and the man was on the left, if the camera cut to the opposite end of the table the actors would have to swap seats so as not to confuse the audience. If you break the 180 degree rule you are 'crossing the line'. In only one case are you allowed to 'cross the line' and that is if the camera is moving and you physically see the camera 'cross the line'.

Shot-reverse shot
shot-reverse shot is a technique where you have an over shoulder shot of one person looking at another and then it cuts to and over shoulder shot of the first person. It can be used in the same way if a character is looking at a newspaper, for example, and then cuts to the newspaper from their point of view.

Match-On-Action

Match on Action is a technique used in film editing when a cut connects two different views of the same action at the same moment in the movement. You have to carefully match the movement across the two shots to make it seem as though the motion continues uninterrupted.