Evaluation

Looking back on the task, Iv learned a lot about continuity, organisation, and technology.
Continuity editing is where the work of the editor is to edit the clips together so they make sense to the audience and so the film looks real life, the audience can empathise and feel more involved. The main rules of continuity editing can be found in a previous post.

We used digital SLR cameras to take the photographs for the story board, I found it easy to use the camera, and for the majority of shots we used the auto setting. We imported the images one by one onto the story board to ensure they were in order. This allowed us to find out what angles and shots we needed for our film.

We have learnt to use our time wisely whilst filming. We should have got all of the conversation shots before filming cut away's as when we went back to re filming some parts where we had made mistakes the actors were not wearing the same clothes which would have made the film non-continuous.

Personally I enjoyed using the digital video cameras and found it easy to use once I knew how to use it. However moving the camera to film pan shots on the tripod I found difficult as it was quite stiff and not easy to move.

To upload our footage to On Location we plugged the camera into a USB slot and recorded the footage onto On Location. To split the footage up into different shots, we pressed the pause button every time there was a shot change, which broke the film up into chunks we could edit.
We then opened these chunks of film to Premiere where we edited the film together.
The most important tool we used was the flip tool, as we had filmed part of the scene from an opposite angle the 180 degree rule was not visible,so we flipped the part that was wrong to make the whole thing continuous.

Personally I found it quite hard trimming the clips to fit together and making match on action actually match up, I thought this was very difficult. Also it was very annoying when we had to film 'cut away's' to cover up mistakes in angle changes.

To present the video on my blog, I uploaded it to youtube after making a youtube account, then pasting the embedded code into the 'edit html' section on the blog.

I found blogger really helpful to keep track of my completed and uncompleted work, also all work looks presentable and is easy to understand.