Continuity

The main difficulty of filming our clip was continuity; the room we had filmed in had many objects that could have been moved around to make the next shot look out of place. When filming the main focus I concentrated on was staying consistent with continuity and making no vital errors that were noticeable, in a few of our clips we had noticed that objects were in different places so we did have to re-film small parts of the clip just to make it right. In our group we all worked together well to avoid any continuity problems, when we were filming we reminded each other not to adjust any objects as the next few clips would be different from the first couple of clips, this would have looked un-professional.

Types of shots

 This shot is a Extreme close up (ECU), this shot can be used to see facial expression and should just cover the mouth, nose and a small bit of the chin. You will mainly see Extreme Close up shots when something bad has happened to show the real expression on the actors face. You will see many Close up's in series, and on general TV as they are very effective shots.

Here is a Medium Shot (MS), this shot shows the actors body langauge well and get's the feeling of the actor through to the viewers. These can be very powerful shots as it can show how the actor feels and can have a great effect on the final outcome.

 Here is  Three-qaurter shot (3/4), again this type of shot can show the actors body language very well, it gets part of the body in so you can see how he is showing his body language by moving his arms in maybe fustration or just explaing something.

This type of shot is called Medium Long shot (MLS), this shows the whole body and can be used in any type of genre, it show's how the person is standing, it show's there full body langauge and gets the point across to the viewer what they are doing. Medium long shot's are great, this gives the chance to add in some of the enviroment, but also allows multiple people to easily interact.

 This is a Long/Wide shot (LS/WS), the long shot can be very simular to the wide shot. This shot can be very useful for displaying the enviroment behind the scene and some of the stuff happening around the scene. It can capture other audience's into the shot and shows the audience what they are surrounded by and what else is happening around them.

Here is a Over the Shoulder shot (OSS), this shot is framed from behind a person who is looking at the subject. The person facing the subject should usually occupy about 1/3 of the frame. This shot can be used for interviews and other serious parts of a film or programme.

Recce shots

Here is a location that not all of us agreed with, I think it's a great place to film as it's a nice size for our cast and equipment we need. The lighting is fairly dark but I think this would be a good affect towards the final outcome as the light makes it look serious, and the interview we will be doing will be intense but a clear understanding of what's happening.

This is a perfect location for filming our script as it invloves a interview that would need a office room that would fit in with our script. The lighting for the room is adjustable, if we needed it darker then we could simpy draw the blindes, the room could involve alot of sound like the sound of chairs moving, doors closing and people talking. The room is a good size and we will just have to set the layout of the room a little bit different to the photo as the meeting/interview table is to big for the space we need in the Kings room.



Here is another loaction up in the learning support room, the space we had was limited as the room is quite small to fit our cast and equipment in. The lighting and layout of the room was too small and the lighting was a little to dark, if we were going to film our script in this room then lighting would need to be adjusted.

Here are some drawings of CU (Close up), MCU (Medium close up), Big extreme CU, MLS (Medium long shot), Long/wide shot LS/WS, MS (medium shot), 3/4 three qaurter shot. These are many shots that can be acheived from one camera position, but this is not the case. You can use a wide angle setting on the zoom when framing close up will result in a lot of the back ground being shown; while using the telephoto setting for a close up will result in a small proportion of the back ground being visible.

This spider diagrame gives us some idea of what will be happening in our cip we will be making, for exmaple some of the shots that will be used and the rolls people are taking in the clip. This helped us a lot as it gave us more idea's and also gave us a visual image of what will be happening in the clip.

premliminary task introduction

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.