Continuity Editing

This (continuity editing), is making sure that the piece of film runs smoothly and it looks natural. -There is no gaps in between shots and it makes the piece of film, "seamless". We had to include eyeline match: a shot of someone looking at something off screen, then shot of object that the person is looking at. 180 degree rule: if you are filming a conversation between two people, there is almost a line going through the two people and the camera can't go to the other side of that line (or 180 degrees) unless the camera pans around... Match on action: if there is a shot of someone drinking a half full glass of water, the next shot must show the glass as half full (or as it was at the end of the last shot) and in the same position as it was at the end of the last shot. Shot reverse shot: this is when you are filming a conversation between two people and you switch looking between the two people.

Pictures of where we shot our opening sequence.

The first pic is where I filmed the character playing a video game.

The next is where the friends walked down and the camera pans from a shot of some grafiti.

The next pic is where the friends are walking down together, going to school.

The next and the last pic is where we filmed the dead character (Scott).

Tast Set

In Our group we were asked to create a short film and were given things we had to add in. We were asked to film somebody walking through a door, sitting down in a chair and having a conversation with someone else. However we had to add in many shots and shot types to make this more effective. Also each shot had to flow into another shot to show continuity editing.

Through what I have done now, this has set me up very well in ensuring that my opening sequence will have good continuity.

Planning the sequence

I found it quite easy to include continuity editing into the plan. It only took a long time. I also just DID follow the rules, they were not that hard to follow for the continuity editing. The equipment i used was just a storyboard with a pencil, (drawing out the sequence and writing the sound that would be in it and the shot types and angles). I thought of a person running through a door, down a corridor, into a room, pushing someone in a seat, shouting at them that they set him up, then the person that was running getting killed.

Filming

I found it quite easy to include continuity editing into the short film clip. The only thing was, that it took, and still is taking a long time to make sure that every shot flows as smoothly as possible from the shot before it. It just takes a long time to edit the whole short film clip. I made sure that everything from the previous shot is in exactly the same place in the next one. i made sure that the end of one shot slightly overlaps the start of the next shot. (So if there is a shot of someone running down a corridor and then at the END of the shot, he/she bursts through a door into a room, the next shot STARTS with the person when they just about get to the door to burst through) -so that i have a few seconds to play around with the editing to get the best "natural" cut to the next shot. I just used one camera with possibly a tripod for this. This was located in a corridor and a dark room that will have the lights switched on. We filmed it in order of the storyboard.

My preliminary task

Evaluation

I think that the filmming and planning of the clip was very easy and was made well. I could have either edited the film better or reshot a few shots as sometimes, the props and the person are a couple of centimetres in a different place and sometimes, slightly in a different position. I understood all parts of the continuity editing that we had to include in the clip.