prelimenary task- Deal or no deal

What editing and camera techniques have you used?

We have used shot reverse shot. To illustrate the conversation between the two characters.
We aimed to use the 180c rule, however when it came to editing we realised we had made some mistakes whilst filming. We crossed the line that should have been between the two characters. To counter act this we had to flip some of the clips so that it kept to the rule. This ha taught me an important lesson, to ensure that we have thoroughly completed all our planning and have it all with u on the day of filming.
We have added title before the film in order to show required information, candidate numbers, titles, names.
During editing we had to cut out a lot of film as we had either filmed it twice- to choose the best clip or there were some mistakes. To do this we used the razor tool to delete unwanted clips and the move tool to arrange them in the right order.
Using the special effects we added transitions between some of our scenes as the clips jumped suddenly.
The flip tool was used to ensure all our film kept to the 180c rule.
This experience has enabled me to learn many new techniques for filming and editing which will help when it comes to producing our thriller opening.


What other new techniques have you used?
Blogger has been a big part of this project and much of media studies. On here I have posted the story boards, shot list, script, film and evaluation.
We have used you tube so that we can upload it into our blogs and other people can also see it.
This was the first time we had had any experience of using a camera. We encountered a number of problems. When editing we found that our transitions were clumsy so we added fade in transitions to make it smoother. When filming our entrance into the room we found it was difficult to keep the camera steady especially when opening the door handle.

How well does your final product meet the brief?
Original Brief: “Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.”
Our final product does meet the brief as we have filmed and edited opening of a door, sitting down in a chair opposite another character, exchanging a few lines of dialogue and shot reverse shot. However as explained above we had problems when filming but have since managed to fix these when editing. Our product did meet most point on the brief but with better organisation and planning we could have met this a lot more successfully.