Preliminary Task Evaluation

For our preliminary task we had to work in a group to create a short continuity clip. We had to film someone walking through a door, walking across the room and exchanging dialogue with someone else. it also had to include editing techniques such as match on action, shot reverse shot. We had to make sure all the clips did not break the 180 degree rule.

As a group we chose to film our preliminary task as a Parents evening so we started with a tracking shot of the parent and then a match on action of him opening the door, he walks across then
takes a seat in front of the teacher, which was captured as a two shot, they shake hands and then the dialogue begins and the parent and teacher talk shot reverse shot is used and over the shoulder shots are also used. 

The continuity of the video could have been better if we had filmed more footage before and after the clips we needed because it would have made it easier to match the actions, because the ending of each footage put together cuts off quite fast and makes the editing pace quite fast and for a clip that is meant to seem realistic, the editing makes it seem very unrealistic.

Another problem we faced whilst filming was that we played back the footage quite a lot so when we forwarded the tape to finish recording the footage ended up too far down the tape so it made it a little harder to retrieve our work.