Evaluation activity 7

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

Unfortunately my preliminary task was wiped off the computers when the college system was shut down. However I will explain the different camera shots, angles and continuity aspects me and my group used. The storyline was about a women who comes home from work to find her house in a mess and her partner not have done anything about it for the whole day whilst she went to work and he stayed home

The establishing shot we used was of the women walking up the stairs a long shot is used. There is then a medium shot of her about to open the door, then a close up shot of her actually opening the door. Match on action was then used to show her going through the door she is then on the other side of the door and is inside the house. She then switches on the light switch and eye line match was used to show her switch on the light and then look at the light turn on. The next shot was of her looking at her partner and a shot reverse shot is used to show what is looking at. There is then a shot long shot of her walking up to her partner they begin to argue in the middle of the room the 180 degree rule is used during there dialogue exchange. He then grabbed her to sit down and they continue arguing then shot reverse shot is used again when he explains what he had been doing all day to show the objects that he is showing her.

During the process of making the pleminary task I learnt an awful lot about how matching shots together correctly are very vital and important in making a sequence make sense to the audience. For example the one aspect of continuity editing which was hard to get right was match on action because it need to be cut at the right parts for it to flow and match together.We had to film this many times to get rit right and for it to make sense when the lady came through the door.