Preliminary Video
In this shot, I discovered how hard it was to pan efficiently. Even though it was filmed on a tripod, it was difficult to keep a continuous pace.
In my final piece 'Dead Night' I tried to tackle this by editing the shot to make it slower, however in the end I decided it would simply look better as an extreme long shot, without the panning.
Here we see a 'match on action'. It is edited so that the shots last barely a second, allowing for continuity and pace. We see the door knob turn as an extreme close up, the foot in the door as a close up and then a medium shot of the 'teacher'.
The 180 degree rule is used during conversation between student and teacher. An over the shoulder shot, to a medium shot containing both student and teacher, and back an over the shoulder shot demonstrates correct use of the 180 degree rule, without breaking it.
A shot reverse shot is demonstrated between these three scene (as numbered). Although the camera is now in a different position, we still see the camera return to the orginal character.
A similar shot reverse shot is also demonstrated in this final scene of my own film
A match on action is also demonstrated here, where we cut from one shot of the student standing up, to the student leaving the room. There are no transition effects to allow for continuity.
This preliminary task was helpful with sound editing - In hindsight the music slightly drowns out the voices, and so in the film opening I was careful to make sure the sound levels were as they should be; for example the sound of the zombies needed raising to be recognisable and heard along with the films music. Therefore the audio levels had to be adjusted from their original.
I also learnt that the quality of film was better when uploaded to Youtube rather than Blogger, which affected my final choice.
As a continuity editing task it was very helpful for the final scene in the bar room. For the first minute and a half it was not necessarily necessary for me to use continuity editing techniques, since the scenes often changed with each different title.
This task was also helpful with getting to grips with a camera and tripod. Although I was being filmed, I was still able to help set up the scene.
