HW 3a- Continuity task evaluation

Story:

The video tells the story of two characters walking down the stairs, discussing homework when one of them accidentally pushes the other down the stairs. In doing this the person who falls down the stairs is momentarily unconscious and then dazed for a while. At first the person who accidentally pushed her is helping her but when the person who was pushed down the stair's friend arrives the other character runs off like a hit and run sort of situation.

Continuity:

We made continuity in our video by making sure out characters maintained there appearances throughout shooting, this meant that in each shot it was obvious to the audience it went in chronological order. We also had a shot in which you see a character start running followed by a shot of the character starting behind the camera and then running into shot and down the corridor. We also had a low angle shot in which the characters walk down towards the camera and keep walking further down so the next shot being a high angle shot makes more sense to the audience as you see the perspective of the characters change.

Success in continuity:

The majority of the time I feel we did not achieve great continuity, this can be seen in many different areas, for example it shows characters walking in one shot and still in the next before they continue walking in a shot where it should be continuous, as a result all the momentum of the shot is lost and the flow is stopped. Another major problem is where we have shots which change the perspective of the same scene but characters were shown to move place which also kills the continuity of the shot. Lastly, in the video it looked like certain parts were repeated when we filmed something twice, this also ruins the continuity and flow of the scene.

What we would change:

In hindsight we would storyboard the scene extensively before we shot it, this would aid us in deciding which shots we were going to do and where, this would also mean that everyone we are working with has a clear idea of what we are going to do and avoids confusion. By doing this we could achieve more continuity because we would know at which point to start and finish shots and where the characters are meant to be positioned so that it makes sense from shot to shot. This would in turn achieve better continuity which the video.