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Peter Geldart 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? CONCENTRATE ON EDITING AND CAMERAWORK. GRAB SOME FRAMES FROM BOTH TASKS AND PUT THEM ON THE BLOG AND SHOW WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT SHOT TYPES, EDIT TERMS AND TECHNIQUES. MAKE SURE YOU MENTION THE 180 DEGREE RULE, MATCH ON ACTION AND SHOT/REVERSE SHOT. When I first started this course and did our preliminary exercise I learnt very quickly about continuity and match on action and the 180 degree rule, but found that applying it to the actual film would be difficult. We used the match on action more in the preliminary exercise then we did in our film opening, this is only due to the fact that we don’t have any two people having a convocation, but we do have shots cutting between two people where there wasn’t allot of risk of breaking the 180 degree rule as ‘Freddie’ only turns 90 degrees around a corner. However in the preliminary exercise where we had to view people talking we had to make sure that sally was always on the right and Elliot always on the left, and making sure the action from over sally’s shoulder matched her reaction or it would look out of sync.

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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? CONCENTRATE ON EDITING AND CAMERAWORK. GRAB SOME FRAMES FROM BOTH TASKS AND PUT THEM ON THE BLOG AND SHOW WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT SHOT TYPES, EDIT TERMS AND TECHNIQUES. MAKE SURE YOU MENTION THE 180 DEGREE RULE, MATCH ON ACTION AND SHOT/REVERSE SHOT.

When I first started this course and did our preliminary exercise I learnt very quickly about continuity and match on action and the 180 degree rule, but found that applying it to the actual film would be difficult.

We used the match on action more in the preliminary exercise then we did in our film opening, this is only due to the fact that we don’t have any two people having a convocation, but we do have shots cutting between two people where there wasn’t allot of risk of breaking the 180 degree rule as ‘Freddie’ only turns 90 degrees around a corner. However in the preliminary exercise where we had to view people talking we had to make sure that sally was always on the right and Elliot always on the left, and making sure the action from over sally’s shoulder matched her reaction or it would look out of sync.

Sound was a hard thing to get right as well for both exercises, where in the preliminary we didn’t capture much good sound at all so we had to use the room tone we got to cover it,

and use good footstep sounds to cover the bad interfering sound within the other footage. And we also forgot to think about all the sound might need and forgot to

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record the second time the door opens and closes so I had to take the previous sound of the door and play around to make it sound good enough.

Believe it or not even though we didn’t have much of 180 degree rule issues we did have some continuity errors. Continuity is hard thing to get right in allot of cases, even for professionals, although there wasn’t much continuity to look out for (compared to a professional feature length film) we had one error in our film opening, at the beginning of the clip we see ‘Freddie’ packing a brief case, but towards the end of the clip where Freddie is dead the brief case is empty, but we didn’t have much control over this as there were documents in the briefcase used as props when filming at my home, that I couldn’t take out, plus a laptop turns out is very heavy in a brief case! And when Freddie dies, one the first time we see his foot face one way the next with the close up of Samuel’s foot with the brief case, Freddie’s foot faces the other way, but this was only because we had to keep moving out of the way for members of the public walking by constantly. And finally whilst on this topic in the filming process of this opening we had to make sure that when Elliot who was playing the part of Freddie, that he was wearing the same cloths all the time so that we didn’t have any continuity issues. Sometimes we had to wait long periods before filming again as Elliot forgot to wear the right cloths.

During the (long and painful) editing process in our preliminary the most important thing was the opening of the door from both sides trying to get the match on action right and have no overlap,

I also found out that the hardest part of the editing was editing the sound, sound in any area of media is hard to get right and sound good, where you have to be careful

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things aren’t too loud or too quiet, or hissy or have any feedback, and in my edit I also encountered some sound issues, where I wanted to be a bit ambitious, to have music in the background, along with diegetic sound but I had to make sure that one sound didn’t overpower the other sound/ music in my film opening. And I learnt in my preliminary if and when you move a mic you have to be careful how you move the mic or like in my case, I got a lot of feedback and sound I couldn’t use.

In all I believe that from when I first started the course with me preliminary exercise to this point now with my finished film opening, I still believe that i have an incredible amount to learn about trying to keep the audience’s attention, as we were told from a feed back of a Year 11 audience, their feed back concluded to be;

“Not really engaging but OK. Some good camera shots and thought the use of ‘slo-mo’ for the death was good. It was a bit short for the audience to get involved with any of the characters and

needed more detail to be successful.”

This helps me to understand that I needed to put more in, however, the intension of this opening was not to get the audience involved with the characters as I was trying to keep the cryptic/ mysterious and confusing nature if the film, although I do agree that I needed more footage and action to get the audience “on the edge of their seats”, although I think for the work that I did (which was most of it as the other two were more inclined to do as little as humanly possible) but never the less I believe that this feed back has helped me realise what I need to work on in future projects.