Continuity Task

When assessed for our work above ^ my group was awarded a level 2 by our teacher. As a class we peer assessed each others work coming up with possible ideas in which we can use to improve our text. Our first main problem of our task was that it was incomplete as we hadnt carried out one of the bullet points of the task set which was to show the audience the character leaving the room. However it was our first main videoing and we wanted tio experiment a different sound track to what might have been quite different. In addition to this the reaction shots of our characters facial expression where quite hard to follow and the audience may have not got a clear understanding what was actually happening, the framing of some shots was off camera angle and made the audiences attention turn way from what was happening. By improving we came up with that next time it would be best to make it obvious to the audience what is actually happening in shot, and by doing this we need to make sure each character is centralised appropriatly in the frame and that it's a well focused understandable shot.

Furthermore to keep consistency with our shots for better marks we need to make them effective and different to the audiences attention.

As a group we worked well together in the planning of our continuity task, we made sure that if we didnt like something we would discuss with eachother and tell eachother what had to be changed. We all looked carefully at filming picking out bad and good points and tryed our hardest to make it as believable as possible. Andy in my group kept a steady hand on the camera making it effective and not shaky, whilst me and Charli focused on keeping the actors 'Amber and James' focused on what they were doing. Even though in some areas the framing of some shots were wrong we can now see what to do next time.

Another point that let us down were the length of the clips, which would comne under editing, meaning we'd need to focus on the way in which we position our clips. In some clips the clicking and sounds from the camera were heard bringing the verisimilitude down as you would never hear this in a professional film, to make sure this will not happen again we need to give the camera a longer time to end its recording, this then would make it easier to remove the clicking noise without having to alter the effect or quality of the clip. The location in which we chose was not exciting or very thought about, we could have come up with a much more suitable location to make it more interesting, this then gives us no other choice other than to chose another location for next time.