Continuity Exercise

Firstly the continuity excise is about making sure that items or clothing does not change within a scene. For example if Nicolas walked into a room in scene one on our first day of recording, on the next day he would have to wear the same clothes to keep the continuity of the scene.

So after going through the storyboard we were ready to film. During the filming of the task, Nicolas and I took turns in using the camera, for example if I was in a scene Nicolas would film and if Nicolas was in a scene I would recorded it. When it came to recording a scene with the two of us in it, the recording fell to the person nearest the camera (if it was an over the shoulder shot, looking over Nicolas's shoulder he would record the scene.) While recording we followed the storyboard closely to maintain our continuity.


After we had finished the recording we uploaded the scene to our editing software "Final Cut Pro". Now we had all the footage we began editing it, referring back to the storyboard to make sure the video was as close to it as we could achieve. After we had completed the editing process we added in the titles, and transitions these included the "Fade
from black" at the start, and also the "Fade to black" at the end. Then finally we exported
the whole project as a Quicktime movie.

Evaluation
After watching through our video a couple of times we agreed on a couple of things. We think
overall we think that the video is good as a whole, but we think that some of the shots could of been
improved. For example: the shot of the door handle could of been improved by using a tripod to
make the video more stable, also we could of used more shots to make the conversation more
interesting. There is only one scene in our opinion where it really doesn't work, this is the scene
where Joel stands up with the paper in his hands. We believe this because when watching the we
Joel starts standing it cuts to another shot looking up at him, it is the cut between these scenes that
does not work, the video short of jumps from starting to stand and when stood. Another scene that
could of been improved it the first scene, when Nicolas is walking down the corridor the camera
could of followed him down the corridor before stopping instead of just a static shot. One of the
shots that we think worked really well is the high up shot of Nicolas walking into the room as this
shows him throughout and also his destination.

Story Board

We have created a storyboard as it an important part of planning, and with out it there is nothing to refer to when creating the final product. We can now see what sort of effects can be used this is because by creating our story-board we can debate weather non diegetic sound should be used or not, also we had to consider things such as what shot sizes should be used and overall where we would be basing our production, we had to alternatively think about whether we had background music or whether we just stuck with the natural recorded sound. And finally we discussed about any additional changes that could be made . These additional changes can the be made to improve the overall viewing pleasure of the video.


The story board image are in reverse order

Introduction

Welcome to Group 4's AS Media Blog, in my group I started with 2 of us, but after a reshuffle in class I am now working by myself. We are currently planing our storyboards for our continuity task. We will then move on to recording it.

We hope you enjoy this blog and the video clips that we will produce through out our time at collage.

Joel and Nicholas