Film making exercise

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We are doing a continuity exercise to ensure that we know all the shots when doing our own 5 minute film which will contain minimum filming mistakes.

I found this video extremely useful to do this film making excersise because all of the ideas within the video we will be incooperating into our short film. By thinking about the filming aspect of our short before, it will ensure that we make the best decisions for each part of the film with elements such as angles and shots. Each camera movement or shot should be done for a particular reason or for continuity purposes, for example the low angle print screen I took of the video is done to emphasise the fact he is playing guitar or in other circumstances could be done to show a characters dominance.  

      Furthermore the video shows things like lighting and focus examples. These are key aspects because you want to achieve the best quality for your viewing audience therefore it is important to keep the camera and the right objects in focus and make sure the lighting is appropiate for the area in which you are filming. In addition the video showed transitions and special effects that you can use when it comes to the editing process for our journey exercise and short film. Transitions are helpful to go from one clip to another, showing continuity. Furthermore, they can be used to show what is happening in the narrative, change of location and passage of time like they do in this video.

This is an example of a transition that is used for both passage of time and change of location. As the boy walks behind the bookshelf it transitions from the first print screen image to the second, which I found was a good way to do this therefore, gaining ideas for editing in our own short film.