Week two

Continuity exercise
   In groups we did our continuity exercise where we had to film one of us walking towards a door, into the room, going to sit down and having a conversation with the person sitting in the other chair. We followed one of our storyboards and on a first try i was filming and the other two members of my group were acting in it.

   Together we decided how we were going to film it, the location and the dialogue before rehearshing the camera angles and the content of the film. We used a combination of camera angle shots e.g. over the shoulder shot and extreme close up to record out film.

  We began to shoot the second half of another persons storyboard where this time i was an actor in the film. We used the same technique as in our first video.

I have added some images of my group and i working on our videos.

Week two

Continuity exercise
   We began to create a storyboard of our up coming video on continuity where we planned each shot we'd be filming in our video.

   I decided what shot i wanted to use e.g. a long shot and what angle i wanted it to me e.g. an over the shoulder shot

Week two -Preliminary exercise

Here is the video of our continuity exercise before editing:

   I think the exercise went quite well and i was able to appreciate how much work goes into filming and continuity. We tried to need as little editing as possible so make the editing process easier. The actual date is Monday 21st November 2011 and we have been given the clips of our exercise. As both Fehinti and Adam are not in our lesson, i decided to go ahead and edit the films into one film.

   I removed the parts where you could hear me saying 'Action' to make the film as smooth a i could. At roughy 14 seconds, Adam (the actor and member of our group not wearing the blazer) says 'while'. We tried to have him start a sentence and finish it in a different clip (over the other group member's shoulder). This did not really work and it didn't flow with the first part of the sentence and wasn't said in the same ton the beginning of the sentence was said in. I could not fix this in the editing process as it was part of the dialogue that i couldn't cut out.

Here is the finished product:

Not too bad for a first attempt at editing, don't you agree?