Continuity editing

Some aspects of continuity have been achieved in our short film task, such things as; location, clothing and lighting. However when watching the playback of the clip altogether it seemed to be quite slow and didn't flow as well as we'd have hoped it would. For example when opening the door, it didn't look right and the attention of the audience may have been misguided. This is because the person in the clip had stopped then the camera recorded, and then they walked; rather than moving while rolling. We did try and solve this problem by editing.

We feel we have evidenced what we learnt last week; we learnt about close-ups and long shots. We have included shots like these within our clip. We also thought about framing our shots by setting up the tripod beforehand and figuring out which shots look best where. We think our close-up was also done effectively as we'd even gotten on the floor to shoot it.

We did include the number of shots we'd planned as well as more from a sheet that was helping us with the task.

One of our weakest points to this task was the pace and atmosphere that is put across in my clip. We feel it lacks both of these as we'd followed the sheet and done what was asked but didn't put our own stamp onto the clip; like improvising or changing any of it.

Or clip could be improved both by camera work and editing. On a few of our last clips we should have used the tripod to straighten out the framing, as the camera was held by hand. When filming we would film a master shot as we didn't do this. Well done us;)