Continuity task final video

We have finished editing our continuity video, we used cuts and fades, also we added the songs we picked last week; we had to edit them as we only needed a few little sections of them. For this task we used all 3 of the criteria (180 degree rule, shot reverse shot and action match) We are pleased with our final video as it looks more proffesional than our prisoner video and our continuity is much better. We are looking forward to doing our final piece as we are more confident using the software.

Log sheets and our hand drawn storyboards

Soon we will be uploading our hand drawn storyboards and the log sheets which will show the evidence of our planning. Both the log sheet and our storyboards were helpful as the log sheets told us what clips we needed when we were editing, this saved us alot of time when editing because without it we would have had to go through each clip and see which ones we needed. The storyboards helped as they showed us which shots we had to do next and how they should look.

Editing the footage for the continuity task.

We have just finished editing our footage and it is now rendering, we will watch it back and if we find that we need to make any more edits we will make them. The edits we have used are  -
- cuts
- fades to black
- dissolves

Production Schedule

Week 1 (20^th October)

Book the camera on Friday 22^nd for week beginning 1^st November.

Begin basic planning.

Week 2 (27^th October)

Finish planning (location, actors etc.)

Week 3 (2^nd November)

Shooting over the full week.

Update blog.

Upload footage on to the media server by the end of the week.

Week 4 (9^th November)

Shoot version two.

Upload to the media server.

Edit the footage.

Complete and upload on to blog by the end of the week.

Week 5 (16^th November)

Present task, and evaluate.

Update blog.

 

This is our production schedule what we used to keep us organised when filming and editing.

Script

Script

Chloe Carr

Location: classroom, corridor, common room

Actors: Holly and Chloe

Camera woman: Hannah

Holly walks down the corridor and opens a door into the classroom. music is playing and fades out when she opens the door (action match)

Holly walks across the classroom and sits down at a desk next to Chloe. as she opens  the door another song fades in as she walks across the classroom, then fades out once holly sits down(180 degree rule)

Chloe is in detention.

They begin talking. (shot reverse shot)

Holly: Hiya.

Chloe: Hi.

Holly: What are you doing here?

Chloe: I’m stuck in stupid detention.

Holly: Oh, well I’ll just wait for you in the common room then.

Holly walks out of the room and in to the common room(music is playing) and sits down. (The music fades out as she opens the door)

She puts in her ipod. Camera zooms in on ipod, volume of music increases and then fades out. ( a different song is playing loud and fades out when the film fades out)

Uploading our footage onto the media server

We have just uploaded our footage onto the media server and are now going through and seeing which clips we need. The following files are not of any use to us because of things like actors laughing, wrong actions and wrong dialogue -
- file 0120
- file 0121
- file 0122
- file 0124
- file 0125
- file 0126
- file 0127
- file 0128
- file 0129
- file 0130
- file 0131
- file 0134
- file 0136
The majority of the files were discarded because of bad acting etc, also we made sure that we did a few takes of each clip to ensure that we chose the best one for our final continuity piece.

Review of Shots

We have reviewed all of our clips that we shot last night and have decided to film them again, because we are aiming for a high grade and want to create a high quality clip. In the shots that we shot last night we included everything we had to but we would like to extend our film to give it more of a storyline. We will film the new clips on Monday or Tuesday night. We found that file 103 is useless as it wasnt how we wanted it to be. Also we feel that all of the clips need improving as the camera wasnt very steady, to over come this problem we will use the tripod more. On Monday we will aim to:
- use the tripod most of the time
- include all 3 criteria of the continuity task (action match, 180 degree rule and shot reverse shot)
- we will have to change our script and production schedule
- we will create an extended video

Shooting

Last night we filmed all of our footage for the continuity task and are about to upload the clips onto the media server, we will watch them and if we are not happy with them then we will arrange to record it again. But if we find that we are happy with the shots then we will start to edit them in order to finish our continuity task.

Our Final Video

This is our final video, we have now finished editing it. There were a few continuity problems such as eye level and people being in the background who werent supposed to be there also the lighting match was a problem. another problem we encountered was location as it was hard to find the location that would match the script. When we were filming outside the cameras picked uo alot of unwanted noise from things such as the wind. In our next task we hope to get the continuity problems eliminated and get used to filming more proffesionally.

Continuity

This is our storyboard for the conversation in our continuity task, we are going to do another storyboard on paper which will show the camera angles etc.