Evaluation

From making our continuity video, we have learned a lot about continuity editing and camera shooting. We learned that continuity editing is used to make the footage more lifelike, and to make the audience feel more involved by making our editing continuous. This type of editing involves many rules. For example, whilst filming a conversation, the camera should and stay within the 180 degrees line and focuses on the person talking. The actors keep eye contact and never look at the camera. Also the two clips have to line up perfectly so the footage appears to be seamless.

Eye line Match

Match on Action

In our pre-production, to make our photo storyboards we used Digital SLR cameras to take pictures of our different camera angles and shots. The cameras were simple to use and produced professional looking photos. We didn’t realise how many different shots we would need to take for a 30 second video, so the complexity of the filming was a surprise.


To get our photos onto the storyboard, we uploaded our photos from the camera using a USB cable, then inserting the photos into our storyboard. Installing photos onto a computer was easy because it’s something I have done before. The storyboard and planning helped us organise ourselves so we could shoot the video. We had everything planned out, including the script, different angles and shots, and the duration.


Once our storyboard was finished we moved onto the filming. However to be more organised we could have selected our actors before we made our photo storyboard, because we had to find our actors at last minute when we were ready to shoot our film.


We filmed our footage using a digital video camera. The video camera was very easy to use, and we managed to get all our shots quickly. Because we had made and planned our storyboard specifically, our filming was very organised. To film our shots all we had to do was position the camera, press the record button, and shoot away.


The next step in our editing was to connect our camera to our computer and transfer our footage. To do this we used a programme called Adobe OnLocation. This allowed us to record selected clips and save them to our computer for further editing. To do this we played our footage through OnLocation and recorded specific footage which we would then like to edit. We then saved our clips into a folder on our Computer. The software was quite difficult to use, but once we had learned how to use it, it got easier and quicker to use.


Once we had completed that step, we then imported our saved clips into a programme called Adobe Premier, which allowed us to edit and piece together our video. To do this we had to position our saved clips on a timeline, and then crop them so that our footage matched up with the clip that followed, making our editing continuous. However we found this software quite difficult to use until we had learnt the basic controls, from there we found it quite simple. Also we had a few errors in our editing, where some shots didn’t match up exactly, and some shots were missing, so we went and filmed a few more clips, then edited them into our main footage.


Once we had completed our editing, we uploaded our finished video to youtube. We did this by uploading our video via the youtube uploader, after we had created our own account. Once we had done this a HTML code appeared underneath our video on youtube, when we posted this code into the HTML part of our blog post, the video is now viewable on our blog. However we had some difficulty with this, we tried to copy and paste the HTML code to the text part of our blog and it didn’t work.


Throughout our task I have posted our planning and activities to this blog, I have found this useful because it describes my events in a chronological order, helping me keep track. I can also look back and review the work I have done, this way I can help improve by making it better every time.