Evaluation of Continuity Task

How has the continuity task aided your understanding of the film process?

By doing the continuity task it has really helped my understanding of the film process, and my understanding of it has greatly improved. It has been very good practise for when creating our own opening of a Thriller. We faced some problems throughout the continuity task which I’m sure we can improve on when planning, filming and editing our opening title sequence.

What problems did we come across during the continuity task and how did we overcome them?

When doing the continuity task we came across some problems like I’m sure the other groups did too but most of them we did overcome.  Not many of us have used the software we need to do our editing but from doing the re creating editing task and from asking Mr Miche and Mr Ford we slowly but surely managed to get the hang of it. Another problem we faced was timing because we didn’t check to see if our location was free to use we had to rush the filming the next day as we had to complete the task for our deadline.  When editing the final extract we all agreed that the ending wasn’t done to the best of our ability as it didn’t flow with the other shots, this is probably due to the timing issue. However we decided to leave it in the end as we wanted to focus on our actual coursework piece and we will take it on board and when it comes to filming for real that all the shots flow and are continuous and if not be sure to film again until they do.

What did you do well on in your continuity task?

I think we succeeded in editing as we learnt so much from our previous lesson and we put that into practise, although we are still learning when we are doing which will help when editing our actual Thriller opening. We managed to include a variety of camera angles and stuck to the 180 degree rule. Although the ending wasn’t as good as we hoped it’s good because we can learn from our mistakes and make our final piece as good as it can be.

The storyboarding process and shot list

I don’t think our group realised how important these elements are when creating the continuity task and the opening as we relied on it quite a lot. The shot list changed a lot as we wanted to get it perfect and we used it a lot. We realised that we needed to be more organised and our timing with things needs to be improved. This links back in with the storyboarding and shot list as it needs to be accurate in order to help us with our final piece, we didn’t spend much time researching what kind of music so when we had to add it in it took time researching and finding what fitted in best. However we did give roles during this task Melissa and I filmed and directed, whilst Finley and Jacob were acting within our continuity task but when it came to editing we did it as a group because we all needed the practise and needed to learn.

Overall, from doing the continuity task it has really improved not only my understanding but the groups understanding of the skills in planning, filming and editing. We will make sure we improve in the final piece. Not only this but we now know what to expect and make sure we are organised and our timing is in check.