Creative Intention for the week
‘To explore and understand how to shoot video for sense in the edit (a continuity edit)
The brief for this task is:
“Film a character walking down a corridor, 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.
In the edit you must demonstrate understanding of
- match on action
- shot/reverse shot
- the 180-degree rule.”
You should copy and paste the creative intention and brief into your reflective journal, under the cinematography page.
Hell’s Club
A great video that uses the rules of continuity editing to create a scene, made up from clips from lots of different films.
Look at how the editor uses editing to create actions and reactions which seem to make a plausible (continuous):
- Sense of space (the club)
- Sense of action and reaction
- Sense of time (meanwhile..)
- Sense of rhythm (cutting speed)
Examples
Here are two example preliminary tasks made by the media teachers, spot the mistakes:
Here is the script which we would like you to use.
You will be working in groups of three for this task and must each shoot the sequence, which you will be editing together once we get back after the 1/2 term break.
- Please use this document to list the shots you will need to complete the edit.