The task for this piece of work was a continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue.
For the shoot, we had to plan how we were going to go about filming the scene. First off, we planned how we were going to use the 180 degree rule without breaking it, which was fairly easy as we just had to plan 3 separate camera angles for the conversation. We had planned to have an over the shoulder shot of character 1, an over the shoulder shot of character 2, and a master shot that had both characters in it. We also planned to have these camera all on the same side of the two characters, so we wouldn't break the rule. (As seen in the diagram.)Our teacher (Mr Seal) insisted that we should do each part of our planning because it meant that we would know exactly what to do when we were filming, and therefore wouldn't have any mistakes made or confusion during the filming.
In our scene, we decided to use continuity editing because it would make the scene look smooth and wouldn't look amateur or jumpy, which would look bad and possibly confusing to the audience.
We also used the rule of thirds because it gave the two characters an equal look of power because neither of the characters were taking up more screen room than the other, they both had equal nose room/head room/lead room.
During the project, I learnt that planning and group-work is very important for making short films, because it means you can have no confusion in the group and everybody knows what they are doing.
