Continuity Task

For our continuity task that we was set, we had to produce a short piece of film that must show a character walking through a door and having a brief conversation with another person. At the same time we had to focus on ensuring that there was no mistakes with continuity. For our production we were in a group of five that included myself, Ruby, Cal, Emily and Sophie, and the additional help of Ollie. The main roles were played by Ollie as the victims husband (who's also the killer), Ruby played the victim/corpse and I played the detective. Cal and Sophie both operated the camera and also took a large part in directing it. Although we all had an input in deciding what should take place and also how it should be filmed. Our film is titled 'Night Stab'.

Here is our continuity task:




We found that the most difficult part of filming was keeping in line with the continuity, especially when walking up the stairs because we kept having to check what foot I would lead on to keep everything one continuous flow. Once we had completed filming we then edited it using iMovie on the Mac. Cal did a large proportion of the editing because he has a good understanding and familiarity with using a Mac, and with the help of Ruby and myself because we both used iMovie last year for GCSE media studies.

The major issue we found with our finished piece of film is that the sound, during one section of it, keeps changing to there being background noise and then to having no background noise. This is because it took more than one take to film this particular section, which meant that the background noise level kept changing. One way we could resolve this problem is by editing out all the sound for this part, and then add sound using methods such as foleying. Another issue we encountered is that we couldn't edit out a section of the film and make it sound right. The issue was that we started laughing at the end part of the film, but we tried to edit it out, but it both looked and sounded jumpy.