Media Evaulation Question 7

When we look at the continuity task we did before beginning our filming real film, I can see how many of the aspects of it helped up to get ready for real filming and editing and how it helped us avoid problems that may have arisen. For the continuity task I soon found out how difficult it was to get the shots right, especially ones that involved a lot of editing, such as match-on-action. Getting all cameras on the right angles and to all film at the same time was definitely a struggle at points and overcoming the problems was a huge step forward, allowing us to prepare for our real filming task. It turned out that in our real filming exercise we didn’t need to use match on action since we believed there was no suitable shot for it and we strongly believed that we didn’t want to overcook our film by putting too many intricate shots in it. Also our film opening is more about creating atmosphere and suspense and less about full on action. Therefore a match on action wasn’t necessary in it. However, leaning how to edit and use them was very beneficial for future filming.



Another problem we came across when filming our continuity was breaking the 180 degree rule. We noticed soon into editing that one shot of Dan’s face outside the office was completely on the wrong side on the 180 degree rule and therefore had to be fixed. To resolve the problem we managed to completely reverse/flip the shot, making it seem like it was on the right side of 180 degrees. From this we learnt to always check the camera shots are always within the 180 degree rule
Even though we didn’t use iMovie in the final editing of our real film, it helped us get to grips with editing and allowed us to understand how easy or hard some of our camera techniques we want to use are going to be. 

Another bit of knowledge we took away from the continuity task was the importance and effect that filters can have on a film. For example, in our continuity we tried out what effect a black and white filter would have on our overall film. It turned out to work very well and add a significant suspense to it, which is exactly what we wanted. This knowledge of the effect filters has meant that we went on to use various colour corrections and filters on our final film. For example, we used a dark blue filter on all shots throughout the film apart from our flashbacks. This added a dark and cold feel to the film which was great for our dark thriller. Also from this we learnt about how to successfully film a shot reverse shot scene. This involves setting up the cameras and filming the scene twice, each in a different angle. We found that this shot was very beneficial despite taking a lot time to film and decided to use it in two of our flashback scenes for our film opening.