Continuity Editing Task

We were given the task of creating a continuity task which focused on producing a short clip of one minute which showed the ability to use the camera along with a range of different angles and techniques.
We were given a short of list of things which we would need to include: having a person walk in to a room through a door and exit from the same door, as well as having two people having a conversation.
Our group found it hard at first to think of an idea which would be easy to shoot in the day with the given equipment provided. After some discussions about who would be needed to act in the task the ideas came to us and we were able to think of a simple idea which was able to include all the things asked from us.

The filming of our task was not too difficult as the tripod that we were proved with helped us in keeping the camera steady and focussed. This then gave us an idea of the difficulty we would face when filming our 2 minute opening for our coursework.

Whilst editing, we found that it wasn't as hard as we had initially thought, it just got some getting used to as we were all new to the programme we had to use, Premier Pro.

The roles that we has assigned to one another for our task worked well as we were able to finish filming a couple days before the task was set leaving extra time for us to edit and complete the short film to the best standard that we could given the time we were assigned to complete it in.

After studying the marking criteria, especially focussing on the videoing section, i believe that our group fell into a level 2/low level 3 as we completed everything in that level


As for the audio this is something my group struggled with when having it on the mac. This was because the sound of the music which we had chosen to accompany the scene, as I nor anyone else in the group was sure how to make one sound louder than an other and save it there so it wouldn't change the next time it was viewed and this was something that I think my group should of worked on. Because of the loudness of the music in some scenes it was hard to hear what was being said. For this I would give our group a level 1 as I personally didn't think it was as clear as it should have been.


Overall I think our short film scored a level two from our teacher.


From doing this task my group were able to under how the camera and mac worked and the different ways of using them. We also learnt the different things that need to be done when editing a piece of film. There are still things that need to be learnt but I believe that from what we have already learnt it will help us in our main production of our film. We have also been able to learn the different strengths within the group and this therefore will help us in deciding who will do what when doing our final AS piece so we can be organised.