AS Media Continuity Project

Our first filming project for AS Media was a continuity project. We had to film a simple scene using simple camera shots such as Shot-Reverse-Shot and an Over the Shoulder (OTS) shot. First of all I had to get in to a group of no more than 4 people. The group was Myself, Brendan and Ben and we began to discuss ideas of what to film for our project.

After discussing we came up with the simple idea of a job interview that would only last approximately 20 seconds long using the camera shots shown earlier. After the discussion we then wrote down a storyboard for our film that consisted of 6 pages detailing every shot that we will se on the final cut. We then all proceded to work on the script the following lesson. It described a simple layout and actions for the characters. The dialogue was very simple consisting of 3 lines of dialogue for each character.

We then searched around the college looking for a suitable room for our job interview to take place. We then settled for room 100. The next 2 hour lesson we went there and filmed our job interview. We had to set up where our characters would sit. This caused a problem because of the lighting. If we tried to film the way we initially planned one of the characters would of been to hard to see due to the lighting in the background. To overcome this we had to rearrange the tables in a way that would not affect the lighting in our scene. It took up practically the entire lesson. As we had to get the conversation showing both characters. So to do this we just set up the camera on both sides (following the 180 degree rule which is shown on the video at 0:02-0:07 seconds and 0:09-0:22 seconds) and filmed the conversation. It also took time to set up the camera and film both the exit and the entrance of the interviewee. We had to show examples of match on action (shown on the video at 0:07-0:09) and Shot-Reverse-Shot (shown at 0:10-0:20 seconds) The filming process was possibly the most challenging part of making our film as setting up the camera seemed to take much longer and was more challenging then we thought it would be.

The next lesson we began on the editing process of our film on Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0. Here we cut our film in a way that would help the flow of continuity. On the editing suite we added sound bridges (an example of a sound bridge on the video would be at 0:06-0:07 seconds) as the sound does not change after the cut and flows fluently). Editing was one of the easier parts of making our film as one of the group members (Ben) had used an editing suite before so knew how to work it out therefore getting through the editing process quicker.