Continuity Editing Exercise

The scenario we were told to work to was that a character opens a door , crosse's a room, sits down on a chain opposite another character, with whom she/he changes a couple of lines on dialogue.
The key skills that we had to demonstrate were;

-The Rule of Thirds (Eye line match): Ensuring eyes are on the top horizontal to make sure the two characters are looking at each-other.

-Match on Action: When two parallel actions are mirrored in order to show a strong relationship between two shots.

-Shot-Reverse-Shot: A shot to show the viewer something not immediately visible.

-180 Degree Rule: We use the 180 degree rule to stop confustion for the audience as if we keep the camera on one side during the conversation, Character A would stay on the left and Character B would be on the right,

when we cross the 180 degree line the characters filp, so Character A would flip to the right, and Character B would be on the left. 

I had worked with Muhammad Rahman, Abir Mohammad. I think that we had worked well as a group as we had agreed on our plans/storyboard, and had filmed all of our shots successfully and quickly. Muhammad and Abir had opted themselves to act on camera, with no problems. When we had edited, the shots were easy to use and cut together. Although we had the exact same shots we could make totally different pieces. I thought that the grouping was very successful as we had all worked well together and had not had any disputes as we all kept to our plans.

We had developed our scenario to make it unique by making our Character A walk from the park gate to outisde the school, we had used the gate to demonstrate match-on-action, and used character B to demonstrate shot-reverse-shot, and the rule of third, as character A would ask Character B to get him some concert tickets. To differentiate and make it more exciting. I had added some slow pace romatic music to make it seem as if the two characters are meeting up for other reasons, then you get the shock that they're only meeting up on the means of buying tickets.



My story board was very useful as it was a rough draft of our main compostion, it was the plan of the main piece and when filming came in very handy as we knew exactly what shots we had needed, so that we wasn't unoorganised when editing, and so that we had the exact shots that we had needed. On my composition I had removed my establishing shot as it had no significance to the piece as we would see the same shot with character A walking along it, so it was almost a 'blank duplicate'.