Evaluation: Preliminary Task

The main meaning of the preliminary task was to work in groups and create a short clip which demonstrated continuity, as well as; match on action, 180 degree rule and short,reverse shot. We were told for the clip to include someone walking through a door, walk across the room, sit down and exchange a few lines of dialogue. It was very difficult to create the clip as we were not allowed to break the 180 degree rule and considering the fact we just had learnt of it recently it seemed that we managed quite well. The continuity was not the best sadly. We looked at our footage and noticed that there was not a lot of time to cut in between clips during edit as the actor would of turned there head around or the camera would of stopped recording. Because of this clips were cut a bit to quickly or started to early thus no showing the best continuity results.

We can se through the two screen shots above that continuity is ruined. The first picture (on the right) is of one scene and the one to the left is directly after. It is noticeable that this is not continuos as one moment his hands are by his sides and the next he is fixing his blazer, this ruined the continuity effect.

From 0:42 when the shot reverse shot began there is still lack of continuity. It was really hard to edit the clips due to the fact that there was no gap between eh actors talking and the rolling of tape. Meaning as soon as the actors began talking it started recording, and when they stopped talking immediately the camera stopped recording; thus making it hard in the edit. There was some background noise at the start of the clip but that later was gone due to the rest of the clip taking place in a quiter room.

However overall i like what we as group have created. Since it was our fast task it seems to be done well and we have tried our best to apply are knowledge and stick to the 180 degree rule which through out the clip was not broken.