Continuity Editing Techniques

Our Continuity task involved filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with which he/she then exchanges lines of dialogue. Within the short piece of the film, we had to include match on action, shot reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

Match On Action

Our match on action within our short film could of improved in some aspects so that it was more continuous and fluent. However this was our first task therefore we will learn and become more confident in doing it.

Eye line Match

Eye line match is when the camera looks at a character who is specifically looking in the direction of someone he is speaking too. We included this in our piece when Daryl was looking at me when we created shot reverse shot. We could improve on our neatness as it looked as though he was looking the wrong way.

180 Degree rule

My group stuck to the 180 degree rule throughout the piece although at one point of the video we need to make sure that the rule is not being violated because it was in the middle and may have gone over the 180 degree line for a little bit.This part was when Daryl was speaking to me in dialogue and the camera strained an inch or two over the 180 degree angle. However this is a learning curve and we can pick up on this and improve within our next task.

Master shot

In our piece there is not a part that we can really do a master shot to show everyone where the piece is taking place. However next time i will include a master shot if it is necessary. A film maker would use this technique in his

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What went well was together as a group we all had the same direction of ideas on our acting and how we could perform our task. We all had good knowledge on the 180 degree rule,match on action,shot reverse shot and eye line match. We included all of these within our task and performed them well.

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Sometimes within our task we didn't get the camera shots right, although we had good knowledge of the four techniques;180 degree rule,match on action,shot reverse shot and eye line match, once we filmed and analysed what looks good we realised some of it was not correct. We then re-recorded and produced it much better.

Our task is below, watch and enjoy.

Continuity Task

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My least favourite task of the induction would be that the 'Push A Little Button' . There were several reasons for this. It had less freedom involved and there was not as much independence used on your own behalf. This also occurerd when we were finished and had to edit on the macs. As im new to media, i didnt knowwhat to do therefore a boy in my group done it all and i didnt quite grasp how he done it. However, editing will come in time to me once i learn.

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The activity ive liked the best so far in media would have to be the Donnie Darko scene we re-created. In this part of our assignment, the whole class had to re-create a piece of movie that our teacher showed us in the film Donnie Darko. What went well was we had to get everything similar, the way the classroom was layed out, how all the props looked and the dialogue we spoke. We analysed the bit we had to re-create over and over again so we could pick up on all the little things that would make it more realistic for us whilst we were creating it. Another good aspect was the class on a whole, everyone took shots with the camera and some people acted, the acting was mature and they got on with it.We finished the assignment and i think it was done very well.

Brief

To create the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of 2 minutes

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