Continuity Task

This is our Continuity task. Alice, Avey, Rhiannon and myself decided that it would be good to do a mystery sort of opening. We had a range of ideas, but went with this one as it seemed more effective and was one that we could actually film.

We brainstormed our ideas before we decided on what we actually wanted to do. Although this was effective, it didn't get all our ideas down and seemed messy at points. We used a Sony camera to film our opening sequence. The first shot we decided to film was a panning shot from the locker outwards, with Averielle walking in and opening it, therefore realizing the note for the first time. We also filmed a close up of her face so that we could get her reaction. We then filmed her closing the locker, walking away and up to another door. Averielle then took hold of the camera, filming a P.O.V shot of the door handle and her opening it. After that, you see the S.R.S. between Averielle and Rhiannon with Dialog. The script was very short, as we didn't anything to be given away within the conversation.

Averielle: It's you
Rhiannon: You got my note then
Averielle: I don't know what your talking about. (Lying)
Rhiannon: I know you do, otherwise you wouldn't be here right now.
Averielle: You don't have any proof
Rhiannon: We'll see about that

Averielle then turned round to walk away, and walks out the door. We then added some sound onto this - a song - and we had a high angle, tracking shot to view where Avey was walking, and then we panned in onto the student ID, which was our proof.

We did this because we thought it was a good idea, and we also thought it would be easy to film within one day. This was also our first idea, and we thought it would be an interesting thing to create.

Our group mostly filmed within the ILP day of media, and this was effective because we had the same background noise. However, at one point we broke the 180 degrees rule, so today we went back and filmed the facial reaction in the locker, and the POV shot.

Averielle played our main character, whilst Rhiannon was also filmed as the victim. Alice and I filmed and directed, and Rhiannon also got the opportunity to film.
Rhiannon edited part of our final extract, but as she wasn't in today, Alice and I edited most of the video with Averielles part help. We filmed all of our clip in school.

We did encounter a few problems whilst filming and editing. Firstly, we couldn't find out the 180 degree rule, and made sure that we tried to not break it. Secondly, some of the shots within the video do not all fit together and make it jumpy. Another problem we encountered was the fact that we didn't film it all on the same day, therefore sound was different in the background, this is clear in the video, but we decided that there was nothing we could do about it. Also, as Rhiannon had edited some of our video, when she was off ill Alice and I had to figure out how to edit again, which took us a while to pick up on. If i were to redo the video, I would make sure that I filmed everything at the same day if it were possible, and when I'm doing my final task I might consider recording the audio separately, then putting it onto the video.

Overall, I think our group worked well together and we managed to create a good Continuity task. I don't think that we broke any of the rules, and I think that our overall product turned out quite well. Doing this has influenced our final task as we now know how to film the video and how difficult it is. We will make sure to film in different ways and be creative within our shots. Also, We all know how to edit now so that won't be as much of a problem as it was for this task.