Gemma's Assessment

For the assessment, we filmed a 40 second horror film and doing so we had to take into account quite a few things. We used the camera in different ways to capture different points of vies of things. We held the shots steady and accurately to make the shots more professional looking. We also used a variety of shots such as close ups and long shots for more variation. We also made sure we framed the shots appropriately to fit in with the rule of thirds etc.  Also using pan and zoom and other techniques made the film look more interesting with a wider range of shot techniques.

I do think that the shots made sense and that they flowed really well together in regards to continuity editing, although i think that we broke the 30 degree rule at one point when switching from scenes which gave us a slight jump, although except from this it worked out really well.

I feel that our final peice shows that we can choose costume and props appropriately as they were kept very simple anyway, because we wanted to givve an elemtn of sprise so the naturalistic surroundings were then suprising when the unexpected happened. I also feel that the location was perfect as the tress rustling in the background gave a great creepy effect. Also the actor was great in the film working well with the mood of the film.

When making the film, I was like the director as I said where everything should take place etc And whether the shots looked good with the camera postioning. I feel that if we could edit or film it again we would try to make it so we stick to the 30 degree rule, so there are no jumps, although it did work really well despite that.

assessment Exercise Original

This is the original piece of work that we have chosen to film a 30/40 second clip of.

Composition Exercise

When composing our clip, we carefully thought about making sure we had enough head and lead room. This enabled the clip to flow and the characters to be able to move around freely. We also made sure that we kept to the rule of thirds and made sure all main objects were on an intersection of the grid. We did experience a few technical difficulties with the over the shoulder shots. We learnt that we had to speak more slowly, give gaps in between each persons speech and not to overlap peoples speech. Because we didn't there were a few background noises and  jumps with the speech overlapping. We also had a problem with lighting and the last shot is really bright whereas the others are quite dark.  

Continuity Editing

I think that our video flowed well and achieved continuity editing. On some scenes it does skip but still flows. I think we have improved our skills on editing because it flows much better and we have come to grips with the format. I think we used a good range of shots and shot them according to the shot type. We included all the shots and more. The film has a steady pace throughout and has a hurried atmosphere that reflects in the actors performance. The film could be improved by making sure the camera was steady and make sure the shots we correctly done. There was also one shot where the 30 degree angle was broken.