Task Eight:Using Continuity Editing Techniques

My task is to work in a group and we have to film a short sequence which can demonstrate my understanding on four techniques. Also the task will be done in school showing match on action, eye-line match, shot reverse shot and the 180 degree rule. In addition, the following roles given in the group is that the director is Basra and the camera operator is Reece, as well as the two actor/acteress being Daniel and Me.

Synopsis

Me and and the group filmed four techniques of me looking at a chair that I will sit on which is eye line match, then Daniel walks in being the match on action technique. Furthermore, there is going to be a clip of Daniel and me reading our books which is the 180 degree rule. From the 180 degree rule we went for the shot reverse shot, so Daniel starts a very small conversations about getting the book he has, despite that I ruin his happiness because I am supposed to seem as if I am a bookworm who has already read the book. 

              

Evaluation
On the one hand, what went well throughout the making of this task was that the mic did not get in the way of the clip and the match on action did go wrong, but it was corrected and looked a lot better after I edited the clip. The reason to why the match on action went wrong is because Basra was in the shot yet I made the edit so that Daniel's body covered Basra as well as stopped for there to be a flow in what Daniel was going to next. On the other hand, at the beginning there were some odd knocking noises recorded. In addition, I was supposed to look at two chairs and then one to show that I have chosen which chair I am going to sit on. As well as this I probably should not have put the same clip of me looking after the chair, because it seems as if the chair has eyes so it glares back towards me. I only added the clip of me looking again after the chair as the edits of mine and one of my group members were going to be similar so I tried to make it different. Instead of the 180 degree rule clip being of me and Daniel just sitting down reading our books, it should have been us two talking and then leading it to the shot reverse shot, therefore to me it feels like the section will not come across as neat. The last disadvantage is that there was not a lot of conversation so there needed to be more of that as it now does not make sense with the conversation ending with a line from Daniel and then me. What I would improve is all of the disadvantages if we record the same scenario, or consider not doing those mistakes if there were to be a new scenario. In conclusion, using continuity editing techniques was successful but it still could have been more accurate in some places.