Continuity Sequence Evaluation

Continutity Sequean Evaluation

                     

Introduct task
This is one of the very first vedio production for the first year media btec group which set out for us to learn and experiment on the camera angles,camera movement, editing program and the affect it give. This task is about drugs and set out to be completed in a group of 3 which in clude myself, steve abbs and sam. However as the accidental problem on the attack from a drunk guy while I walk home after finish work and ended up break my finger which make me misses out in a lot of work from this projects as I was in hospital so most the filming task and the ideas came from steve and sam. After the operation i catched up with steve and sam to get an ideas of what is going on and other from the film ideas.

Evaluation

Actor/Actress
All the charecters are male and there are only two characters in this meia text. To make these charecters match up with the way the media represented teeanger and drugs in the globalisation and the window of the world. Steve and Same came up with the ideas based on stereotypically by the public and decided to make both of the charecter look tough. In thise case makeup make up could be used to make them both look more of a ''bad man'' but we dont have that much time to completed this scene and we cant afford to to wast anytime so we just stick to the main points and the stoey line of this task.  One of the actor who play the role of drug dealer is wearing tracksuit which have the look of "chav", this is the stereotype by the public. Other charecter who play the roles of a teenager who is a victim of drugs is wearing jeans and hoodies(normal clothes). As I mention above this short film is bases on steleotypicall to th public and it's our very first film so we dont have alot of skills to figure out the best deal of each shots and the looke that's given by each actor.

Location
This short film was shot in East Norfolk Six Form College, the advantages of this is that we know the college area quite well which we know the right spot to make it un noticable to those to never been to this college before. Our group alsotried to avoid all the logos that show the college's  the location as drug dealer and sith Form college are not quite match.  

LIghting
The key lighting technique is one of the very important techniques that are used in alot of film as it's can created an emotion and feeling to lead the audience to certain scene for example horror film usually include shardow and other lighting to fill up the audience's emotion/feelig.
The key light that are use in this film (sun light) is too bright which is not quite match on the film as drugs and crminal behaving should be done in the dark place (shadow is a good technique to includ) to give more affect and the emotion.

Issue
The shot below should be flamed smaller so we can focus on the main situation, this way would be able to drawn better audiences's attention. Lighting editing could also be used (e.g. faded) as lighting can create the emotion or create certain feature of each shot in the film which should have been put in certain shots. There should also be a slow-motion scene in this video to show the way of criminals behaving. 



Camera angle

The camera angle Is including high angle to make the charectors look bigger and powerfull and lowe angle to show what is going on in the point of view and give the audience a clue about what is happening. We also used low angle to zoom on mobile phone e.g. 0:14.  far, close and zoom in to focus on the main situation on each shot which is not much. We try to use every techniques we have learnt  which some of this work well and get us an impressive shot but some look  to wonky and don’t match. 

 

Distance



The distance for each shot is also very important in the film, this is to show a detail and each shot (distance of each shot is depending the siuation and the story in the film e.g. certain shot must look closely to see the detail but shot like eaterbating shot doesn't have to show every detail as it's only representing location).  Some of this shot could be improve such as in the first start (0:02)  the shot is too wide (this shot were film about 10-15 mater away from to charecter )  which is not the best ralationship for diatance as it's could lose the audiences's focus. To make it better it should been filmed closer and used slightly different angle.
 

Camera movement

There is one shot of camera movement on this video which on 0:10. This doesn’t work very well as  it makes the film look shaking and make the characters and the less of the team looks unexperience. This need to be improve by avoiding  the camera movement(bump). The camera angle should be on the opposite side and focus on what  the character is looking at as this is an over shoulder shot to make all of video look  flow and make the team look professional.

 

Shots
In this sence we have included a wide shot, long shot, extream close up, close up, in each part of the scene to make the film look more professional by using many different skill but mostly there are wide shot as in the first day my team started filming I wasn't there so it's harder to act and film at the same time by this issue Steve and Sam have fixed out this is the best and use full shot they could used.

 

 

There is also some shot that don't work quite well such 0:21 part,  the shot change on to another look too much like an art movie. This is only to do with the way the scene change to another. We should not try to add too much of each different techniques on the changing shots in the scene. To improve it this need to keep it more like original way and work on the lighting and the feeling of feature more. Also the angry shot should be kept longer to show to real creature and feeling of this shot more.

 On the film the directors using fading to start and ended each scene to make this look more of criminal scene and also to show the audience that this scene is end or either this is another start of new scene  and using dissolves in between middle of the scene to continue with out the camera movement.

In the scene we have to make sure that that we don't cross over 180 degree other wise the audience will get confuse and lose even before the film finish also we have to keep the audience focusing and aware of what is about to happen. 

All the scene is done been make in East Norfolk  sixth form college this mean it including editing and filming for betec LV 3 media first filming project to be able to improve our skill.

 The cut andit out  because it's a few of them in certain scene e.g. scene 0:10 this is not quite match as the camera have back off so far instead of coming in closer for each shot to make it look better on each connected of the shot.

There is a good match cut ''eye-line match'' on 0:05 - 0:06 but if you look closely there is a reflection of the camera on the phone screen.  An un-professional eyes line match cut is on the 0:20 - 0:21  part when the character looks at the money to check it but then after the cut it show that the way the charector's facing doesn't show match on action.
Also there is some mistake that we have made on each scene our team hade goes back to revers it again to cover up the mistake but in some scene that has show the mistake it's because none of us really see the mistake out of it.