Continuity Exercise

For this exercise, We was asked to create a sequence. The scenario of this sequence was: A character opens a door, crosses a room and sits down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. We could then use our creativity to create the story behind the sequence and add the rest of the sequence in. In this exercise, we had to use a few media language skills and show that we could understand them and use them in our media work. We had to show knowledge and understanding of match of action, which is when something happens in a scene, then when there is a cut, but the same action is completed in the other shot, to make it seem like there was no shots in between it. This is an example of continuity editing. Also show knowledge of shot/reverse shot, which is a cut used to show the viewer something not immediately visible, then cut back to the same shot as before, and finally show understanding on the 180 degree rule. A demonstration of the 180 degree rule and the rule of thirds is shown below:

 



In this exercise, i worked with Liam Bull. We split the planning and filming equally, so with the story board, Liam drew up the first half, and i drew up the second half. When filming we worked together with this, as we both were the characters in the exercise. I think this grouping was quite successful, because i am good friends with Liam, and we are both interested in similar things, so when it came to the planning, our ideas bounced off each other and we came up with some creative things. Also i think it was successful as when we was to do the work, we needed to communicate over the weekend. This was easy as we talk a lot already so we had no problems with this.

To come up with our idea, Me and Liam came up with one initial base idea. Which was karate. Then we just elaborated on the idea further and further, and used our creativity to come up with the final idea. When filming our idea, we didn't really use the storyboard much, as the idea was pretty much stuck in our head from drawing the storyboard, and some of our ideas wouldn't have worked that well so we didn't stick to the storyboard 100%. But the storyboard was still very useful as it helped to plan our ideas and put them into a sequence, then we could change anything that didn't work and make sure we had all the key concepts, and also made sure it would turn out the right length. When editing my piece of work, i stuck to the last half of the storyboard very well, but changed more on the first half. My story board is below: