Continuity Task

We had to prepare and produce a film of 30-60 seconds of our own film keeping continuity between a convosation. we started with our shot list

Person A walks up to a door
Handle is opened / pulled
Shot of person A walking through the door
Shot of person B sat down
Shot of person A sitting down next to them.
Shot of person A asking person B if they are ok?
Reverse shot (CU) of person B replying?
Two shot of person A and B – person B asks person A a question
Shot of person A’s reaction and answer
Shot of person B’s response.
This may be reapeated and varied as conversation develops – think carefully about this part. The scripting is important here!
Shot of person A getting up.
Shot of person A walking away.
Shot of Person B. Person A exits through same door as entrance.

we added a few more shots when producing our storyboards. I created the script and we found two actors to work with. We set our location in room 80 but had to relocate ourselves to another room as this wasnt avaylable at the time we had sheduled to shoot. When planning we had to abide by the 180 degree rule, which was hard to work with in a small space.
Here is our final plan

As a class we peer marked our work and created targets so we know how to improve our filming for next time. Overall my group were given a level 2 of 30/60. 

I could see that the focus of the camera is terrible but when we studied it, other factors brought the mark down as well.

our targets were

+ needed to be shot more from the characters perspectives in the S.R.S

   - replace where the actor would be with the camera

+ don't cut through a sentence

   - this interferes with the continuity

+ sound needs more work

   - due to bad choice of setting

   - room was too small to work in with an echo sound interfering with a clean sound

+ lighting is inconsistent

There were many features that we accomplished well

+ good range of different angled shots

+ Framing was generally used well

+ effective use of editing

+ camera was effectively used

i am reasonably happy with the result of the first video i've produced. I now know what i need to work on and have a better understanding of using a camera.