Evaluation activity 7

7) Looking back at your preliminary task what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?
   From our continuity editing and 180 degree rule tasks I feel I have learnt more about camera work and I've also learnt a great deal about how to edit shots together to make it appear smooth and look like a continuous action. Continuity shots can be filmed at completely different times as long as the lighting, set and costumes are the same. One scene is filmed many times but from different angles and then cut together during editing so that the changes aren't noticeable to the audience. This is also called a match on action, as the shots are cut so that the whole of one action can be seen. We used this type of editing twice in our film, once when I run down the set of stairs and then again when Sian and I enter the building. We cut the shots together in order to show our whole journey to the audience so that they could understand what was happening and make sense of our narrative. Our continuity task is featured below.

I learnt that the 180 degree rule is considered to be an imaginary line that can't be crossed unless the movement across the line is shown, because otherwise the audience would get disorientated and not be able to figure out where the characters are in relation to each other. We didn't use this rule in our film because we didn't need to. The camera stayed in a fixed position when filming most of our scenes so the audience wouldn't get disorientated and could see us only from one angle at a time in each shot.

Lastly I learnt about shot-reverse shots. This type of shot is used usually for conversation sequences in films. The camera is on one person to see them talking and cuts to the other person or people to see their reaction or to show them replying. It cuts back and forth between the people so that the audience can see the whole dialogue. We didn't use this type of editing in our film, because we didn't have any dialogue scenes. One scene we could've used it was when I was under the stairs and Sian was bullying me. However we wanted our audience to see the whole picture so had a medium long shot of us both.