Evaluation Acitivity 7

This is were we capture our match in action, this was our first attempt at it and it wasn't the best, some of the continuity was wrong such as the hand position in the door was wrong, back then we initially believed this was a good preliminary task however now I see things wrong with it since filming our opening two minutes. I would probably now use a shot closer to the door then what we used, so it flows more smoothly. I think the editing could have also been smoother, with a slower pace instead of an instant cut, this could be solved by having the actor step further into the room making the cut more seemless. We also used the 180 degree rule in this clip, this was very well done, even now it was good, we felt more confident using the 180 degree rule in our filming because it was a pretty basic use of camerawork, along with this I believe that our use of the shot reverse shot could have been improved, through the use of editing, to cut the space between and there is lack of continuity between Luke entering the room and him being sat down in the shot reverse shot this could be improved by improving the directions and telling him to come in and sit down instead of instantly cutting when he is standing up, this could have confused an audience as they would not have seen him sit down, so they might think the movie is not properly down.

In our actual opening two minutes, I believe we used these techniques far more effectively, we used match on action very well to show the throw between the two detectives, to show the continuity of the scene, the medium shot we also used for it helps the audience focus only on me catching the object, although if we were to do this again I would probably have used a close up shot of my hand catching the bag(like later in the clip), because this would have provide a mystery to what was inside the bag and made it the audiences main focus instead of me. We tended to focus on medium shots in this opening because we wanted people to mainly focus on the two detectives and this was the easiest way to gain speech, background and the character speaking, all at once.