Video preliminary task.

This was a continuity task involving filming and editing a character. We had to include:

• Opening a door
• Crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with which she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue.
• This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

As we are only in a group of two, we joined up with another pair, and used them as actors.  

Evaluation of clip:

  Whilst editing our footage we deleted and changed quite a lot.  To start with we had two shots of Dec (The male in the clip) walking down the hall, in an over shoulder shot.  We watched both and decided which shot was steadier and worked better with the rest of the footage.  

  We also think that the gap between the shot of Dec walking, and the shot of his hand is quite big.  If we were to do this again, we would of added a shot between these two, of him reaching for the handle to make the editing smoother.  

  We then had to cut a few seconds off the start of the shot of Dec opening the door, from the inside.  This was because the match on action of him opening the door from the outside, and then to the inside didn't quite fit.  

  We also feel that the shot/reverse shot was very brief.  If we were to do these shots again we would add another clip, to make the conversation longer.  We would have also sat Dec down across from Beth, rather than him being stood up.  This would have also helped our 180-degree ruling to be more accurate.

  We will keep all of these mistakes in mind when making our final product.

Stevie and Lauren