For our first task, we had to create a short film where someone walks down a corridor, opens a door, and says a couple of lines of dialogue with another person in the room. The film had to demonstrate the different types of shots we'd been learning about, as well as continuity editing, the 180degree rule, shot reverse shot and match on action. I was in a pair with Frankie, and we had to work together to create our film.
First of all, we had to create a storyboard for our film. Me and Frankie both came up with ideas for the storyline and shots, and improved upon ideas we already had. However, we didn't stick to the original storyboard, as during filming, we kept coming up with different ideas of what would make the film better, which meant we left out using shot reverse shot in favour of a two shot, but also meant we went from a close-up of the door handle being opened from the outside to an extreme close-up of the door handle being opened from the inside, which I think worked very well. However, in future, I would choose to stick to the storyboard unless we came up with a VERY good idea, as it can mean we miss vital shots out.
We also had less time than we would've liked to create our film, as for the first hour and a half of what should've been filming time, we had no camera, because our camera wasn't working so we had to wait until another group had finished using theirs before we could start our filming. Considering this, I still think we did a good job and it meant we used our time more effectively, though also meant we could've done with a bit more time during filming.
The editing was less problematic. Whilst it was the first time either me or Frankie had used Adobe Premiere Elements, I'm used to using Windows Movie Maker for my vlogs, and used this to help me figure out APE. I actually found them to be very similar, and preferred APE to WMM, so I'll use this program in future. Me & Frankie took it in turns to physically edit the film (as we did in directing and filming it), and both contributed where we thought appropriate as to where we thought it should be edited.
This is the finished film:
I think the match on action and continuity were pretty good, though could be slightly improved in a couple of places, though this is more due to not sticking to the storyboard. We did still stick to the 180degree rule though, and we made use of the features of the editing program to add an appropriate title slide and credits.
If I had to do this again, I would allow myself more time for filming, because once you have the initial film, you can get pretty much what you want out of it when editing, but if you don't have the right footage, it can be more difficult to edit it properly, and include everything you need.
