Continuity Editing Techniques - Evaluation

Dear Readers,

So awhile back we did a preliminary task and a professional named Axel, who's filmed in movies such as Star Wars came to analyse our videos and showed us how to do it properly:

Here is what he said about my movie:

•        Framing between Shot/Reverse Shot is different heights
•        Cut away before she sat down
•        Over lap – film more than needed
•        Fill the frame more 
•        Same distance from both people on the match on action

But general things I gained from other videos:

-       Headroom – esp. Midshots, fill the frame with subject, no dead area to side or top.  More figure.
-       Follow character – move the camera to fill frame always.
-       Reverse Shot /Shot – drop down more so inline with eyes and match the head/frame sizes
-       Downward shot – gives power to other characters
-       Work camera all the time – tilts, pan. NO optimum setting
-       180-degree rule – finish pan when stop walking.
-       Use of frame – fill the frame
-       Hollywood cut

When we did it again, here are the shots that we should of took:

Match to the first wide shot in height

Here is a wide shot

 

Close up, match the eyeline

Over the shoulder

Match the eye line, don't even need
2nd person.

So until next time people... Bye!

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