Final cut of Continuity task

 Here is the final cut of my Continuity task- The Breakup. I hope that you will enjoy watching it!

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Filming our Continuity task

Last night we began to film our footage for our continuity task. The overall shoot was a success and we managed to get all the shots that we required within a short time period. We ensured that we took multiple shots of each scene so that when it comes to the editing proccess we have a wider selection to choose from and hopefully that will mean that the final sequence will be better than our previous tasks. The location for our shoot was at my house, so I was famililar with the surroundings and access to elements such as lighting and health and safety. Unfortuantely the main light within my living room doesn't work so we had to use surrounding lamps. Hopefully this will not cause an issue for the overall quality of the footage as we managed to use the remaining natural daylight as backlighting. When it came to setting up shots, I decided that for some shots it would actually be easier to capture them in hand held mode rather than using a tripod. When we did the tripod, however, I found it hard for some of the shots to find enough space to be able to get the shot that I wanted. As a result some of the shots are at a closer range than others but because we have such a wide range this shouldnt become an issue once we get to editing. The overall shoot took around an hour to shoot. We made it a priority to try and include the key continuity shots. Im happy with how the filming went and i really feel that I became more adventurous with the range of shots that I was capturing and I now feel more confident to try and be more experimental with my work.

Casting for continuity project

After much deliberation and difficulties we have decided the following decision shall be made with regards to casting.
The character of James shall be played by Ben
The character of Lucy shall be played by Erin
Now that casting has been sorted we are scheduled to begin shooting on Monday the 17th of November

Continuity task

Today we were introduced to our first assessed piece of work. The continuity task. The brief we have recieved for this task is as follows:

Continuity Task plus blog

Continuity features:

• Action Match
• Shot/ reverse shot
• 180 degree rule

A character:

• opens a door (ACTION MATCH)
• crosses a room (180 DEGREE RULE)
• sits on a chair facing another character
• exchanges dialogue (SHOT/REVERSE SHOT)

With this brief in mind myself and Ben began to mindmap some basic dialogue senarios that we could use and expand on for our squence. Here is the mindmap that we created with our basic ideas and senarios:

 

As you can see at the bottom of the page we have choosen to expand on the theme of break-ups. To make the senario more interesting for the audience we decided the character of James would be leaving for the army and as a result has to break the news to his girlfriend Lucy. Whilst Lucy would be willing to keep the relationship going long distance, James feels that it would not be fair to string it out and that the best option would be to break up. We end the scene with James leaving Lucy in tears at her house.

Once the scenario had been decided we began to think about pre-production material that would be needed. Below are both the script and storyboard that we created for our scene. I worked on the storyboard to match with Ben's script and as we had already decided that we were to shoot in my house, I was able to match the storyboard to the enviroment and props that I knew were avaliable to us.

 

Now that both the script and storyboard have been completed we can scheduel our shoot and ensure that we have recruited actors for the avaliable day. The next step for us now is to think about health and safety measures on the shoot and how we can overcome these difficulties before moving onto the shooting scheduel. 

The Prisoner- final cut

Finally! I have come round to uploading the footage of The Prisoner onto my blog! (Hallelujah) Here is the final cut of our scripted sequence i hope you enjoy watching it as we had a great time both filming and editing it. Enjoy!