6. 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?

What have we learnt about rule of thirds?

As you can see from the image below, Tyler and I finished our preliminary task successfully and managed to use the rule of thirds appropriately. However, this took two takes as during the first filming, instead of being on

the left of third of the screen, I was seen sitting on the right third, which went against the rule as as you can see in the right picture, Alex is placed in the right third. (Unfortunately we can not show an example of the first take as the video has been deleted). The reason this would have been incorrect is because we wouldn’t have left enough space on the second and third third for the audience to imagine who I was speaking to. Therefore by

[;acing me on the left half of the screen, the space is left empty so the audience can imagine who I am having a conversation with, matching up with the match on action shot. Whilst showing sir our first version of the preliminary task, we had not even realised that we had gone against the rule, proving how hard it is to remember whilst filming. By then remaking the video and fixing our mistake, Tyler and I have learnt the

importance of the rule and the fact that it makes a huge difference to filming.

What mistake did we make?

How have we used our knowledge of the rule of thirds and adapted this in our film?

Here Tyler and I have used the rule of thirds within our ‘car scene’ to create a conversational atmosphere and so that

just like the other example, the audience can imagine the characters within the unfilled space. So how does this effect the scene? The thirds

create more tension, energy and interest in the composition than simply centering the subject would.