Section 7

In our preliminary exercise we had a brief that was: continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite with whom he/she then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task used match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.

The shot reverse shot was used to show the conversation and reaction of each character. In the new media product we have down we used high angle shots when Lola was first introduced because it would represent her power and the representation she carried. We didn't use high angled shots in our preliminary exercise as we didn't have the experience but now we know how to use it, we used it for affect of representation of power.

 

 

 

 

Match on action was used in the preliminary exercise on scenes where the character was walking in and out of the rooms. We used the same in our new media product because we couldn’t change it easily without the knowledge or time to practice. The preliminary task helped us make our match on action shots more clean cut, precise and professional. However, when Beth was under the influence of drugs, we used jump cuts to show how she was feeling inside.

We did use a different shot than before when was the point of view shot because it gave the audience a real impression of being Beth’s eyes and seeing the world as she saw it. For example when Beth was looking around rapidly the audience would see it from her eyes.

 

We used continuity because all of the props, setting, costumes Etc. didn’t change because; it would affect the believability of the media product and the social realism. When we first filmed the 2 minute film, we didn't think it looked very good so we did it again. The problem was that we needed to re-shoot everything due to mise-en-scene continuity. We didn't have this problem in our preliminary exercise because it only took us one session to do it right. I have learnt that if a scene is wrong in the film industry that the production company would match up the continuty as it will cost them more to re-shoot everything.