Continuity Exercise

For our continuity exercise we were asked to create a short film to practice our continuity skills and see if we could edit together a clip that is smooth and has no continuity errors. We decided to do a simple scene of someone running down a hallway and then coming into a room and having a conversation with someone.

We used Charlotte K and Beth in our group to be in the film and as you can see from the continuity exercise below, Charlotte was the one running and Beth met her in the classroom towards the end of the scene.

We had to focus on the shots for the conversation mainly, this was because we had to stick to the rule that we had the camera within the same 180 degree angle so that we didn't break the 180 rule.

For the running part of the scene we focussed mainly on the continuity and smoothness of the scene, so that as Charlotte ran through the door the cuts were smooth and looked like it was all one take with different shots.

I was actually really pleased with the way our continuity turned out, we took out time on the editing and were able to get it as perfect and smooth as we could.