We learnt how to develop a clip to change the effectiveness of continuity and overall feel of the piece Looking back at our preliminary task (oh dear!), it's clear where the clip changes are from the gaps in continuity and changes in sound. In our preliminary task, every clip change has a lowering of sound and then a volume increase again. This constant fuzz behind the film distracts from the overall enjoyment of the clip and for me makes it near unwatchable.
Though from this task, we learnt how to use the basic technologies for creating our thriller opening, for example 'iMovie'. This gave us an opportunity to try out the technologies without that sense of importance to get it right.
While filming the preliminary task, we explored different camera angles and made sure we remembered the basics (180 degree rule) to make the film look realistic. We progressively learnt how to edit smooth continuity transitions between clips to create seamless editing. For example, In our thriller task, there's a continuity sequence when Joel picks up a pencil and draws with it, this seems natural and the audience doesn't notice a change in camera angle. This contrasts with our preliminary task where there were often pauses before action (for example, opening the door and walking through). This is noticeable but the whole task gave us an opportunity to practice timing and editing as we hadn't worked in this way before.
Before filming our preliminary task, we hadn't considered the different techniques we would need to know about and perform unknowingly in order to plan shots that would create continuity. After research about the three techniques we needed to use (180, over the shoulder, and match on action), we began to do this. For example, we would make sure our next shot would have match-on-action by saying 'hold' before we stopped filming for our actors to freeze, then we'd move the camera and give them a silent countdown to move again. This practice in our preliminary task allowed us to do this without thought for our foundation task and therefore saved a lot of time filming.
Though from this task, we learnt how to use the basic technologies for creating our thriller opening, for example 'iMovie'. This gave us an opportunity to try out the technologies without that sense of importance to get it right.
While filming the preliminary task, we explored different camera angles and made sure we remembered the basics (180 degree rule) to make the film look realistic. We progressively learnt how to edit smooth continuity transitions between clips to create seamless editing. For example, In our thriller task, there's a continuity sequence when Joel picks up a pencil and draws with it, this seems natural and the audience doesn't notice a change in camera angle. This contrasts with our preliminary task where there were often pauses before action (for example, opening the door and walking through). This is noticeable but the whole task gave us an opportunity to practice timing and editing as we hadn't worked in this way before.
Before filming our preliminary task, we hadn't considered the different techniques we would need to know about and perform unknowingly in order to plan shots that would create continuity. After research about the three techniques we needed to use (180, over the shoulder, and match on action), we began to do this. For example, we would make sure our next shot would have match-on-action by saying 'hold' before we stopped filming for our actors to freeze, then we'd move the camera and give them a silent countdown to move again. This practice in our preliminary task allowed us to do this without thought for our foundation task and therefore saved a lot of time filming.