Actual Continuity Task

We were given brief guidelines to follow in order to complete the task, the main objective was to film a person entering a room having a conversation with person B and exiting, I believe that we successfully achieved this. We completed a storyboard in order to show how each shot would flow to the next, Lewis drew the shots, I wrote the notes and Lawrence scripted. When we began shooting we decided not to use the original script as it did not fit in with the guidelines that were set so we introduced a new script in order to keep the narrative consistent throughout. We learnt from our practise continuity task that our extract would look professional if we used actors. Therefore we decided to use an actress called Maizie in the task to make the whole thing seem more realistic however we decided to also use Lewis, who was a member of the group. This allowed me to use the camera- which is something that I hadn’t professionally undertaken before- I felt it was useful because it helped me understand how to differenciate the angles and distances used in each shot. Although the camera was not as effective as it could have been I feel that I gained a lot of technical knowledge. I learnt not to break the 180 degree rule, which was something that we repeatedly broke in our practise task. If I were to do this again, I would use a more suitable location in order to avoid the background noise. I would also make the camera closer to the actors by either moving it forward or zooming in. This is because some of the dialogue was not as clear as it could have been. Despite this I believe that the text created was successful and followed the guidelines originally set.