ILP Day Evaluation - Continuity Task

In our ILP day, we started our Continuity Editing Task. We were in our coursework groups so my group was Me, Avey, Rhiannon and Alice. Our task was to storyboard and script the following shot list - aiming for a completed piece around 60 - 90 seconds in length.

 The technical requirements of the task:

• You must not break the 180 degrees rule
• You must include a shot-reverse-shot
• You must include a variety of appropriate camera angles
• You must edit so that continuity is apparent and meaning is clear
• You must include more than one location
• You must include some interaction between characters
• You must include some non-diagetic sound

Firstly, we brainstormed ideas for the task, this included characters, situations, conversations and ideas for different things such as location. this is our brain storm. 

We then had to devise a Shot list. this meant we knew what we were going to do with our camera, and how we were going to shoot it. This shot list also included our character movements and conversations. 

We then had to select our actors, who were Avey as Character A and Rhiannon as Character B. We then had to create a story board of events for our camera shots and sequence of events. This helped us when we came to shoot our Continuous editing task.

We then devised a script of what we wanted the characters to say to each other. Although this was a short conversation, we didn't want to give too much away and tried to make it as brief and simple as possible. 

After finishing all the detailed work, we then started to shoot. We shot everything from every possible angle to make sure we had a variety of shots to choose from when it comes to editing it. We also made sure we shot each thing more than once in case something wasn't right when we came to editing and we could then cut and paste parts that we wanted. The actors we chose were Avey as our main character, being the person who found the note and so we made sure the story was based around her. Rhiannon was person b, and she was the victim or the other person in the room, you could also say she was targeting Avey. Rhiannon did a lot of the shooting, as well as Alice and I. I found that I ended up becoming director for most of it, and tried to get people into position and when to cut each scene. I enjoyed shooting the most as it helped us learn more about camera positions and the 180 degree rule. i found this was the most difficult thing to stick too, yet i think we managed to stick to it and we will be able to see this when we are editing. Overall I think the day was extremely worth-while and I learned a lot. It also helped me understand how hard filming is going to be when we start our actual task, but I believe our team works well together, and we can feed of each others ideas, creating the best one for us and our film.