Evaluation: Question 7:

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in progression from it to the full product?

Our preliminary task was to create a short piece of footage that focused on continuity. In this footage, a character must open a door, walk across the room, sit down opposite another character, and exchange a few lines.

When planning, we initially spent a lot of time trying to achieve difficult/impossible things, like jumping down from an open tile in the ceiling. This time, I took into account what was achievable and what was not, although our lighting was very ambitious.

During filming, we learnt about the 180 degree rule:
You cannot pass the line of action, as then everything is on the opposite side, which disorientates the audience. We used this in our preliminary task and our film opening:

In each different position, the camera changes points on the 180 degree line of action, and does not swap over and face the opposite directions or angles.










We also learnt how to effectively film and edit match-on-action. I learnt that you had to film from each different position the whole course of action, so that when you come to editing them together, you have a range of choices on where to cut the frame, to enable the action to look as natural as possible: