1. Preliminary task
Shannon Graham

2. Introduction
Continuity is a system of cutting used to suggest a progression of
events in real time and space (no flash backs, fade out dissolves
etc. jump cuts)
The task
The task was to create a 2minute film that involved two characters
to have a conversation and these three rules, match on action,
shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

3. The 3 rules
180-degree rule
180-degree rule – Take the central two characters draw a line between them and you do not cross
the line.
From my film

4. The 3 Rules
Shot reverse shot
Shot reverse shot - For example in conversation so you can show two perspectives, you can see the
characters face when they talk or to see there reaction to what the other person is saying.
From my film

5. The 3 Rules
Match on action
Match on action match - a series of shots that show the same action, for example some one opening
the door. You would get a clip of them approaching and opening then from the other side of the door
you would see them enter.
From our film
For our match on action
we decided to use a car
door as we thought it
would be different than a
normal door.

6. Our Ideas
Our first idea was a student walking down the corridor with Hoodie and headphones in to there detention the student sits
down and the teacher tells the student off and takes there head phones and jumper and gives him work and then leaves.
The location would be in a class room.
The conversation would go like;
teacher - “ that is not a part of the dress code give them to me”
student - “ how about no”
teacher - “either you give me them or you will have another detention tomorrow for”
student - gives Hoodie and headphones
teacher - “here some work, I will be back in minute”
teacher leaves
But we thought that it would have been done to many times so we decided to change our idea to a couple leaving to go to
work and getting in the car as we thought it would be different to use a car.

7. Story board
Inside the house and having Bradley walking to the car and get in Conversation
a conversation ''Come on then followed by Zoe
Zoe hurry up''
Zoe getting out the car Cuts to Zoe getting back in the car with Bradley looks at gear stick
her phone Then drives off

8. Conversation
Inside the house In the car
Bradley; Come on Zoe hurry up! Bradley; Right you got your wallet?
Zoe; Coming! Zoe; yep it's in my back pocket got it
Running down the stairs Bradley; You got your keys?
Zoe; we are late! Zoe; Got it
Bradley; Always waiting for you Bradley; you got your phone?
Zoe; Come on lets go Zoe; Should have..
Leaving the house Checks pockets
Bradley; Come on Zoe hurry up Zoe;Wait no I will be right back
Zoe; Yep coming ….Wait for me Bradley; Oh hurry up and get your phone
Zoe leaves the car then get back into the car
Zoe; Okay lets go
Drives off.

9. Location
This is the inside of our
location, as we had never been
to the location before we didn't
realise how difficult it was to
film in a small space.
This is outside the house
on our location and I think
that it was very good for
space so there was a lot of
room to move around when
filming.

10. Filming log
Monday 3rd December
In today’s lesson we came up with the idea and our idea was A couple leaving the house to go to work and gets in
the car, then the conversation goes as have you got everything, no I forgot something then leaves the car then
gets back in and drives off.
Match on action shot of her leaving the house and when they both get inthe car, shot reverse shot of bradley
looking at the gear stick and 180 degree rule with them talking in the car and I will be filming from the outside of
the car in through the window.
Monday 10th December
In today’ s lesson we practices the shots we was going to use for the film, we practiced exiting the house and
getting into the car, we also practiced the dialog and realized we would have to change some it to make it flow
more in the scene.
We realized that we would have to wait until the weekend to film as we need a car for the shots.
Sunday 16 December
Today we went to our location to film our task as we had not been to the location before we didn't know how much
space there would be for filming which we found out was a bit of a dilemma as soon as we started filming but we
soon came over that by changed the size on the camera. The biggest problem we faced when filming outside was
having to stop and restart because of passing cars and bikers going past the car and there was nothing we could
do but be patient and wait. Another problem was because it was so hard to get everyone in the group at the
location at the same time we had to make sure we filmed everything more than once in case we had to change it
because we knew we wouldn't have enough time to go back and re-film.

11. Editing
Once we had filmed our scenes we hit a problem when It came to editing it all together. The
format of the videos wasn't the correct format for the video editing software we had, we tried
Windows movie maker, Serif and tried converting the videos into different formats like, AVI,
DVD, MPEG, MOV, MP4, M4V, MKV and they still didn't work until we downloaded AVS video
editor and then we was able to edit our video and then post it on you-tube so then the whole
group could access it.
The camera we used to film our video on was a Samsung phone and when I uploaded the
videos onto my computer the film rotated to the left and so I had to rotate it to the right to get it
the right way around but in doing so it made the video smaller and made the video have less
quality so we know now not to film using phones just in case it happens again