Shooting the Continuity Scene!

On Friday 6th November:

My wonderful group (Naadhirah, Armanee) and I had to record a 45 second scene to prove we understood the 180 degree rule, and show an exchange of something between 2 people and/or reaction shot of someone. We had to use various camera angles and shots to reveal our new found skills and knowledge of Media.

Armanee, Naadhirah and I had previously created a story board in class (of 12 scenes); we then flipped a coin to choose who were to be the lucky two who starred in the short film. This resulted in Armanee controlling the camera, and Naadhirah and I being in the show.

It was basically about two people walking towards each other, meeting, exchanging a few words (we used "over the shoulder shots" here) and then swapping "money" for a "DipDab"; this contain an element of humour as the way we shot the scene, it looked quite dodgy, as if we were dealing something a lot less innocent than sherbet. After the exchange we acknowledge the exchange and go our separate ways.

We had so much fun shooting this - however, we thought it would take us a lot less time than it did. We shot the scene in the College corridor, which became rather frustrating after a while. There were a lot of people passing through causing us to start over, or wait for them to leave and then start shooting.

For our first time physically recording something, i believe we done pretty well to be honest - there was a bit of confusion with not understanding how to rewind and watch the first few scenes, and we didn't know how to record over pre-recorded material - yet they were simply minor blips, that we soon overcame.

We worked really well together - and this made me feel happier about working with them for our final 1-3 minute film in the near future.







After watching our scene in class, we all realised that we didn't do as well as we could have, therefore we made a joint decision that we would create a new short continuity piece.

So we searched for new actors, got all of the equipment and tried again - same story board, different actors, but more experience.

Plus this gave Naadhirah and I more chance working the camera. We all took it in turns to shoot a few scenes each, so our teamwork skills just got stronger.

The actors listened to what we were asking of them, and were easy to work with, there was also less hassle and disruption in the new place we filmed.

Overall, i believe it went well - definitely better than before... well lets just hope so.

You can see the blog through this link, sorry i was having trouble embedding it onto my blog:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXAtIejmoBo