3.1 - What you learn by doing the preliminary exercise

In the preliminary exercise, we filmed a short continuity task following a scenario where a character was meant to open a door, cross a room, site in a chair opposite to another character, whom they are to have a short dialogue with.

Though we didn't follow this example particularly, we managed to present the continuity editing by presenting three characters throwing a set of keys to each other, followed by a seated character reading out a news report. Since my film genre is 'Horror Comedy', our focus was on being able to capture a comic element as well as trying out the green screen for the 'breaking news' scene.

We all took a different role on the filming. Enshell agreed on doing the acting part on the news report and I was able to get further assistance from Maya and Cheryl who helped to present the 180-degree rule in the 'key throwing' scene. Though we did not consider lighting as an important aspect of our filming, we did pay attention in aiming to create a dark tone possibly to present the 'horror' aspect we are going to present. We were able to present shot/reverse shot as well as 180-degree rule.

The editing of our continuity task allowed me to understand how to apply an image behind the green screen as it will come in handy when presenting the news report scene I intend to add in my opening sequence. I was also able to use Final Cut Pro furthering my knowledge of the programme. We edited the filming in order to create a smoother run of events within our scenario. It did however occur to me that we had not particularly presented 'match on action' in our continuity task and therefore hope to present this during our filming.