Reviewing Others Continuity Tasks

This is a link to another groups continuity task. Overall I think it is well produced and has a good story that I can follow along to, leaving it on a cliff hanger. However at times I believe it has been cut too quickly at 0.07 and the continuity to the sound has been broken in 0.07. At 0.24 there is a very wobbly shot and again the sound doesnt match the previous clip, but this is due to the camera quality. At 0.41 the dialogue "be here" is repeated because it hasn't been cut in the correct place. The zooms were well executed compared to our group, and the addition to music/diegetic sound at the end made it a good attempt and reasonably professional. However, I would advise them to really look closely as to where they are cutting their film together.

Continuity Task- Final Cut

This is our final cut to our continuity task. We have made a major improvement to our first cut because we have re-filmed a lot of our footage and also added titles which is important to our learning towards our real film. Our first clip of me walking through a corridoor and opening a door we decided to re-film from a different angle and track with the camera, rather than use cuts, this also gave us another technique which we have learnt that we can use in our project. We also decided to cut out the zoom when we tracked down to the bottom of the staircase, but keep the camera at a reasonable distance so we could show enough of the chracters actions and enough of the setting.
When I begin to run down the stairs we decided to change the angle of which we filmed it at to ensure that the sound and image of me running after the girls signified danger to them. The cut between me running through the door after the other actresses, to seeing the back of them running was a bit too late which makes the film slow down in pace when it should be fast because the scene is up pace. Also, the position of me running to the locker and getting to the locker changes which breaks the continuity of the film. At 00.53 there is also a person that begins to walk into the scene which you can see in the reflection of the display board, which I attempted to cut out, but only managed to achieve it like this because it cuts out the dialogue. Additionally at the end of the film, you can see the door close twice, which again breaks the continuity of the film.
Overally I think this is a major improvement from our first cut because camera work is much better with still shots and no zooms, however we still have made some errors in our work which we will need to improve and change when we make our real film, also we have a lot of background noise which sometimes ruins the dialogue and action, therefore we will ensure there is no movement in our real film and if necessary we will cut out the sound and add dialogue and sound effects over the top. We could have added some sound to our film to build tension or show vunerablity of the two girls which we will add in our next film. I believe our group worked really well together but we need to pay more attention to the work rather than distracting each other and going off task, therefore we will need to concentrate more on our work next time. 

Continuity Task- First Cut

This was our first cut to our continuity task. When we were filming this we initially thought we were doing really well and getting all the shots we needed to put our piece together, however when we uploaded them and began to put them into a sequence, we realised that the shots we were taking were very wobbly, unclear, and nearly breaking the 180 degree rule. I managed to edited and cut out most of the unsuitable clips and put this short film together, however we are going to go out and film this again, due to the poor quality and execution of it. At 00.06 we tried to perform an over the shoulder shot, but it was very shaky as we didn't have any way of holding the camera still, which we will have to perfect, and it the cut is too quick which looks too jumpy, however at 00.10 we thought the cut from inside of the door to outside of the door looked more professional, however it cuts off my head, therefore we are going to re film this part too. When the camera begins to move down, it is still unsteady, we wanted to include a zoom in our film, however as you can see it was very jumpy and completely ruins the beginning of the film. When I begin to run down the stairs is again very bad video quality and camera skills, due to the camera being hand held and there wasn't enough space behind the camera so it was too tight, therefore we will have to re-film this. From then on throughout the film, our shaky camera and wrongly positioned cuts, makes this look very amateur. Also on of the actresses begins to laugh which again makes it look unprofessional. When we re-film this we will need to ensure that our camera is still and we need to film more footage to work with so that we make sure we have enough to use if some isn't good enough.