Continuity Task Filming

The Brief of the continuity task was to film two people face to face, after one had walked through a door and sat down as well as including match on action and the 180 degree rule.

The 180 degree rule is when the cameras have to stay behind an imaginary line perpendicular to the cameras viewpoint in the establishing shot of a scene and enforces continuity.
Match on action is where the perspective of the camera changes  during the scene but it continues to flow.

For the script, as it had to be less than a minute long, we decided to improvise along a basic plot line: I walk into the room screaming at Mitch as I have just found out he cheated on me. When I come in the room, Mitch falls off his chair and as he gets up I push him towards the window in anger. Finally, we included his hat falling out of the window when I slap him across the face (match on action)

Here, you can see us setting up the cameras on tables and on the floor to incorporate as many different angles as possible, such as high and low angles, as well as a simple two shot.

Overall, we found the filming of this quite easy, but the main issue was how long it took, and is something we really have to take into consideration when we film our opening as it took a lot longer than we realised. Setting up the cameras and making sure they were at the right angle as well as sticking to the 180 degree rule took a long time, especially as we had to change where we wanted to film to fit with the slamming of the door as well as being in a good distance to the window.

Another problem was that two of the four cameras we were using ran out of battery during filming, so we had to rearrange the cameras to be near a plug, which wasn't easy! Here you can see you is moving around all of the furniture in the classroom, as well as the angle and distance we filmed from so the camera could be plugged into a charger. Once we had done this, we once again had to get the cameras either at the same height for continuity or at completely different angles - i.e high and low angles.

Once we came to editing the piece, we realised that we had got the camera stand in a few of the best shots we had recorded, which of course we couldn't include as it's unprofessional. Instead, we cropped the view of the shot so the corner of the camera stand was no longer in sight.


Once we had combined all of the best shots for the best continuity possible, we decided to include music and special effects such as slow motion. We wanted to include slow motion to make the falling of the hat out of the window as dramatic as possible, and also to represent Mitch falling out of the window himself (which of course we couldn't film).
We originally wanted to only have music during the hat's slow motion, but by accident we included it at the beginning, which in the end created a brilliant build up of tension to start off our task brilliantly. The music we used was created using Garageband.