Finished preliminary exercise

Continuity: this is the consistency of the scene/film etc. It allows the story of the scene/film to be shown in a continual linear flow. Continuity allows the audience to easily follow the flow of the movie with ease. A lack of continuity may occur due to human error:  e.g. a object being moved from one shot to the next without anything occurring in the scene to allow it to happen. Alternatively, the lack of continuity may be down to the director's style that may consist of flashbacks and other cuts.




Preliminary Exercise: Here is my/ our group's first attempt at creating a small scene. This Preliminary Exercise consisted of a match-on-action shot, an example of how the 180-degree rule works and an shot/reverse shot. We learnt from this shot to definitely find a better place to film with less people around and because of that we had some unwanted speech in one of the shots. We also need to use editing software to cut out unwanted things such as: "open the door." The lighting was bad for the shots we wanted but as there was nothing we could do with that, it was unavoidable. The continuity error where a character was not seen through the door's window, will definitely be addressed for next time.In all though, it wasn't a bad first attempt. Obviously there is plenty room for lots of improvement that will be addressed.