Continuity task
- 1. OCR PRELIMINARY TASK. Zoe Gimlinge.
- 2. THE TASK The task consists of someone walking through a door and engaging conversation with another person with a minimum of four lines of dialogue. The aim is to have a video between 1 and 2 minutes.
- 3. THE 3 RULES The task must consist of the 3 following camera shots: • 180 degree rule. • Shot reverse shot. • Match on action shot.
- 4. WHAT ARE THEY? 180 degree rule: If the camera does not follow the 180 degree rule during a conversation or a scene between one or two people it disorientates the viewer as we are unable to work out the position of the character within the scenery. So we imagine a line joining the two people together, it would mean that you always ensure that the camera is on the same side of the 180 degree line.
- 5. WHAT ARE THEY? Shot reverse shot: Cutting Action match: A shot that between two people having a cuts to another continuing a conversation, can help to contrast piece of action or movement them and make them seem different. It highlights their between the shots. His allows differences, allows us to see the the audience to see a smooth reactions of characters and also action despite a cut in the shot prevents us to use only one static and from different directions. mid shot.
- 6. OUR IDEAS Pitch: Our first pitch was of Actors: we decided to do the a girl walking in late for action our selves, so I would play detention. But then we changed the girlfriend and Bradley would our idea because that idea was play the boyfriend, while used by most so our second and Shannon filmed the shots. foremost pitch is of a couple going into a car.
- 7. LOCATION The location we used was at Bradley’s house in Winslow, so we could use a house and a car to make it seem more real. The openness of the location was effective because of the bright natural lighting in the morning. We did however have problems with the continuity because of the cars passing by.
- 8. STORY BOARD Bradley enters the Bradley and I both Bradley I I get in the car as shot and I follows suit leave the house walks approach Zoe shortly follows through the front down the car to door the get in drive as I locks the house
- 9. STORY BOARD Zoe gets in I run through items that Zoe exits the Once Zoe The shot the car Zoe needs to remember car gets in the then cuts the when she realises she has car I start car driving forgotten something the engine away
- 10. CONVERSATION (At the door walking towards the car) Zoe; “Lets go before we are late!” Bradley; “Are you sure you have got everything?” Zoe; “I’m sure.” Bradley; “Are you sure? I know what you are like.” (As they get into the car) Bradley; “have you got your keys?” Zoe; “Yes” Bradley; “ What about your phone?” Zoe; “Yessssssss…. Okay no sorry I will be one minute” (Zoe Leaves the car)
- 11. THE SHOTS Match action of them leaving the house, Shot reverse shot of them going into the car (one opening the doors and one climbing in), 180 degree rule with them talking in the car.
- 12. LOG OF EACH DAY Monday 3rd December: We did all of the planning, so we chose a location, our storyline, the characters, the shots and the conversation, we hadn’t chosen which angles we would do the shots in yet because we wanted to test all of the different shots first.