Preliminary Excercise. 5/10/10

  Our task was to create  a continuity sequence involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair with another character, with whom she exchanges a few lines of dialogue.

    The following things had to be included and shown clearly in the sequence:

• Match on action - keeping different shots making sense when editing them together.
• Shot/Reverse shot - moving from person to person when talking.
• 180 degree rule - keeping the camera on one side of the scene so it makes sense to the audience.

   We first made a storyboard for the filming of the sequence, then went on to film it. After filming we uploaded it to iMovie and edited it for it to make sense. The only problem we found in the process was trying to get the door walked through in the same place on the screen, as mentioned in my post about iMovie. However, we did make a mistake in the first shot of the film as the actress sat on the bench later in the film, wasn't shown there through the glass of the door in this shot. To fix this we would have reshot it but in the end didn't have time.