Question 7

The PreliminaryAfter finishing the preliminary which gave our group the chance to get familiar with the camera work and editing whilst practicing our continuity , I’ve realised a few flaws in the

filming and editing whilst in the process of our development. The use of planning significantly helped us with the scenes, action, dialog and actor’s (Will and Agata), otherwise

our outcome would have came out worse.

Whilst we did our first practice of filming, we’ve realised a lot more effort and practicing should have taken place whilst filming and editing which we had to be prepare physically for

the manual labour of using the camera as well as the tripod and mentally for the use of terminology and final cut pro software and effects.

The First shot begins with a panning Movement and a wide shot that establishes the Location- which harrow weald college and informs the audience. The use of diegetic sounds establishes the environment to be calm and regular with just car noises driving by.

The Next scene presents a Long shot of where the first character will appear and this will present the type of action, motive and environment the character will present himself to the audience.

Within the Next shot, one of the main characters bolts through the corridor running as the camera slightly pans and follows his movement, this is the beginning of a continuity shot. Diegetic sounds of the door opening and the main character stomping while running alerts the audience there is a sense of emergency.

In the shot the main character reaches the other side of the hallways and the continuity is at its midpoint this scene as well as sticking to the 180 degree rule. However a flaw with the editing is that as the main character continues to the next scene while going through the door, the first scene he pushes the door much further in where as the next scene he doesn’t which does create a flaw in the continuity editing.

And the same flaw continues in the next scene as he pushes the door much further in but only by a little bit. This medium shot as he closes the door and holds the handle implies to the audience that he’s recovering and blocking something that has been chasing him before.

The same shot however he realised there’s a way to barricade himself in the class and grabs a chair to secure the door, the character give a sigh of relief which closes the tension however this scene should have been a close up on his face to show his reaction.

The first dialog begins and the second main character appears which is a girl asking question, from a medium shot presents the girl to be scared and enclose in a corner which leads to the idea that their strangers but survivors.

This was a reverse shot to view the reaction of the main character to see that he was surprised to see another survivor however we had only recorded one clip of his reaction and its hadn’t been cut properly during editing which created a down fall for this scene. The girl voiceover continues within this scene to the next.

the next shot returns back to the girl on the floor continuing to ask her questions which establishes that she’s nervous and clueless about this mysterious student. He rolls up his sleeves and a panning shot begins as he sits down on the floor across her.

Within this Frame a Over the shoulder shot is established from the second characters view as the main character across continues his dialog, this is the beginning of a shot/reverse shot. The audience is able to view from her side of the conversation.

Within the Next shot it becomes a reverse shot to the other side of the conversation however there is a flaw in the acting while filming is seen again as the second character changes her leg composition to suddenly having her legs cross, we should have filmed her while her legs began to cross but we didn’t have the right clips.

Yet again in the next scene, the camera return to a original shot in the conversation from the girls view. the reverse shot is also a part of the 180 degree rule.

Again the reverse shot is established to view the girls reaction. She realises there’s something wrong with the boy’s leg and check it out, the audience are informed that something isn’t right due to the girls reaction.

In this scene a close up is presented onto the main characters leg and the girl character action, this foreshadows that the main character has been infected by the bite mark which implies a sense of uneasiness. However the flaws in this show was that the image wasn’t clear enough to view the bite mark and that in this shot we had broken the 180 degree shot as the bite mark was on the other side of the leg while watching the clips but in editing we had flipped the clip to make it more subtle.

In The Last shot which goes back to the over the should shot from the girls view, the audience is able to see the main characters action as he slaps the girls hand out of the way which emphasis that he’s hiding his wound and that fact that he’s infected which creates a dangerous atmosphere. The last flaw is that we didn’t record a reaction shot of the girl when her hand was slapped out of the way and the realisation that he was infected.