Wednesday 24 October 2012

Continuity Sequence


For the filming and story boarding of this sequence, we were put into groups rather than choosing them but edited our own cuts separately. I found that, as a group, we worked well as we all understood the task and worked together to come up with an appropriate idea that we could film. We decided on the plot of the sequence together after brainstorming and found it easy to incorporate match on action, shot reverse shot into our continuity sequence though it took me  a while to understand the 180 degree rule.  

Our final piece was slightly different from the original storyboard as we realized a certain shot (the one in which a piece of fabric tied around Daisy's mouth is pulled off by Rebecca) was not practical so, after attempts at the shot, we changed it to Rebecca standing behind Daisy and untying it. We struggled with the amount of time we had to film but once we realized we were slightly behind the other groups, we picked up the pace and successfully finished our sequence in time. 

We used both a steady cam and a flip camera with a tripod for this sequence and also choose the right props/costumes. I feel as if we made decisions together as a group sufficiently and overall worked well.

When it came to editing, we realized that some of our shots were not continuous and the way in which Rebecca came in from did not match the rest of the sequence and so we had to re shoot. We worked together to convert the clips so that we could export them correctly and viewed each other's clips after we finished. I found the editing relatively straight forward and I learnt how the adjust the volume of the audio.

In conclusion, once my group and I decided on what we were doing and got the hang of it, we worked well together; our only issue was timing but we did manage to complete it in time in the end.