Q7. Looking back on your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

What have you learnt about continuity?
By creating the continuity I have realised how hard it is to create a good film. Having to use the correct camera angles and movements can be very difficult. I found that you have to have a nice transition when going from one face to another, otherwise it won't flow very nicely, and will look jump and as though you didn't edit it very well. I found using the 180 degree rule was no problem at all because we simply and quickly decided where we were going to place the line. I found that the match on action was very simple to complete and once we'd decided what we were going to base our continuity on then filming this part was very simple.

What mistakes did you make and how did you avoid making them for the main task?
When we first began filming our continuity we thought we just had to make a mini horror film but after several attempts at filming we realised that we'd been doing it wrong, but finally we did finish and I think I looked quite good. Mistakes we made included quite jumpy transitions, and so we took this into consideration for the main film, and we most definitely improved as you can see at the start with the nature shots. We think that our use of angles in our continuity didn't need any improving due to the fact we used quite a few, however for the main task we didn't use very many different shots, but this was probably due to the fact we were using the hand held camera method, and by using a tripod means you have a steadier and better looking scene.

Continuity

OVER THE SHOULDER

This is an over the shoulder shot, and we used this type of shot twice in order to represent the conversation going on between the two characters. We learnt that this was a better and more professional looking way to film two characters having a conversation that just seeing them both at the side.

HIGH-ANGLE-SHOT & LOW-ANGLE-SHOT

 With this shot, we were trying to identify who had more authority and you can see that the interrogator has more because we used a low angle shot on them, in contrast to the suspect who has a high angle shot

MATCH ON ACTION

Here, our match on action consisted of a shot of the character opening the door and then the camera filming her on the other side walking into the room. Personally I think this was a nice way to open the film because it straight away shows our skills of being able to film from different angles.

TWO SHOT

This shot could represent how at this point in the interrogation the two of them are equal and that nobody is more superior. Although this isn't what we wanted to present, the reason why we used this shot is because we wanted different angles in the continuity.

CLOSE UP

This shot was used to show the facial expression of the character, and express her emotions.

Main Film

PANNING

In this shot we used panning to show display nature and to create the nice flow effect with the other nature shots when it came to editing

CLOSE UP

In this shot, the facial expression was used to create tension and to display the amount of dismay that this character was in.

TWO PERSON SHOT

This shot could portray the amount of authority that the characters have between them, but because they're not in a large group then I'm not sure if they do hold a lot of power.

HAND HELD CAMERA

We used the hand held camera method to make it look like a perspective of what the characters were seeing.

LOW ANGLE SHOT

The shot here can suggest some sort of superiority that the trees have over the group, as they're taller than them and are towering over them