Tuesday, October 19, 2010

The Preliminary Task

Today in groups of three we had to complete a preliminary task, to show that we understood the ideas of 'Continuity Editing', and perfect our skills. Within the groups we had to film someone walking through a door, then going up to someone within the room and have a conversation with that person.
-Firstly, as a group we storyboard our ideas, thinking about the camera angles/shots, and making sure we some dialogue within the piece. Also, we had to make sure we were using many of the rules within 'Continuity Editing', like focusing on the 180 rule and match on action.
- We was then given a camera, tri-pod and tape to start filming. And within my piece the girl is walking through the door and walking up to a boy whom is sitting at a table. The boy is asking 'What"s wrong' which then the girl replies 'I'm pregnant'.

I believe that we used 'Continuity Editing' well within our piece of work, as while the girl and boy were talking we stuck to the idea of 'shot/reverse/shot' showing that they were having a conversation. Also, I believed we used 'Match on Action' well as we got the clip of the apple dropping onto the table, then rolling across the table and then lastly rolling on to the floor.

However, the task did have its difficulties, as once we had filmed the scene we had to import it onto the Macs, but we had trouble importing as the battery on the camera kept dying and we had the wrong wire to connect the camera and the Mac together. But we over came this by asking for the correct wire and getting a new battery for the camera. And now all the clips were imported, we were able to start editing.

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