Continuity Editing Exercise

For this piece of work I was given the basic task for creating a short 30 to 60 second scenario with the basic story line of a person walks into the room, has a conversation with the other person who is sitting on the chair and then leaves the room. I was paired with Priya Lal for this piece of work. From the basic story line of the task, we added our own ideas and expanded the story line. we changed the location and made the actors into friends in the scenario. Our story line was that a friend was running late and she called her other friend to meet her in the park to tell her some urgent news. but the friend was actually just joking and didn't really have anything to tell her so pretended as if she had forgotten. in this scenario, we had to have the following shots to show what we can do filming wise. those shots were: 180 degree rule, match on action, shot-reverse-shot and the rule of thirds. we also had to use a different variety of shots such as close ups, long shots, high angle, etc...

The 180 degree rule is when the camera is on one side of both the actors and can only stay on that side.

Match on action is the when the action happening the the shot matches with a different shot but the continuation of that action. in this task the match on action would be when Priya rides through the park gates and when she opens the other small gates. Shot-reverse-shot is when the audience is shown a shot, then a different shot of something different and then back to the first shot. The rule of thirds is when all the actors eyes are about a third way down the camera.

I enjoyed working with Priya as we got along fine and completed the work without any problems. I think the scenario could have used a bit more creativity as the story line was a bit basic. We had a bike for a prop which is a creative and a different idea from other similar pieces of work. Our scenario was a comedy which a lot more different to all the other videos made like this as their mood was either full of  pressure or a really positive mood.

The storyboard made was quite helpful as it showed me which shots I need to film, the type of angle/shot its meant to be, who needs to be in the shot and where it is located. Priya made the first half of the storyboard and I made the second. We  both worked together on deciding which shots goes where so there wouldn't be no confusion when it came to actually filming. We individually did the editing and came up with our own versions of the scenario. In my version I left out a few scenes as they were not needed as much.