My Presentation for my continuity task

1. AS Level Media:
Continuity Task
By
Declan Flannery

2. Brief
We had to create a video with coursework behind it, It is titled
the continuity task because it is helping us learn about continuity
in media. We had specific rules which were:
• Match on action shot
• Keep to the 180 degree rule
• Have a door opening and closing
• Shot reverse shot
• At least 30 seconds of dialogue between two characters

3. 180 degree rule
A rule stating that a camera
should be placed somewhere
inside 180 degrees on a
particular side of the invisible
line of a shot containing two
people filmed in sequence. If
the camera crosses the
line, confusion results for the
film viewers, because it can
make it look like the people are
switching places as one
watches the film.

4. Screen Shots of 180 Degree Rule
As you can see in both shots, they follow the 180
degree rule even thought they change shot not if
the camera was placed behind the man who is
central in both shots that would break the rule and
not follow it at all.

5. Match on action
Match on action is a technique of filming used in many sorts of
films. It consists of connecting two shots together in which a
character finishes off an action in the second shot that was
started in the first one, for example a clip of a character walking
through a door in which he opens the door being filmed from
behind then the clip cuts to him walking through from the other
one.

6. Screen Shots of Match on Action
In the first shot you can see from this side the shot zoomed in on the
actors hand opening the door, then in the next shot it is the actor
walking through the door but on the opposite side of the door and him
entering the room.

7. Shot Reverse Shot
This is a shot that views the action from the opposite side of
the previous shot, as during a conversation between two
actors, giving the effect of looking from one actor to the
other.

8. Screen Shots of Shot Reverse Shot
In the first shot it is a over the shoulder shot of the women talking
then it reveres to the woman's shoulder of a shot where the man is
talking and then finally back to the woman for her to speak again.

9. Idea Overview
• The Three Wise Men
This is our idea overview in our continuity film it would be one of
the three wise men finding out that the Baby Jesus was going to
be born and therefore him finding the second wise man and then
calling the third to inform him, This would be a modern rendition
on their story using suits and a modern setting for effect.

10. Storyboard
This is the starting scene where I am waiting for a This is the close-up shot of God calling me and this is
phone call; we used a medium to close shot which was me also using our prop which is the phone.
shot at the side for effect.
This is a medium to long shot of the actor running to Here is another shot of the actor running but inside
inform the other wise man of the information we used setting and a different angle this one from behind to
this with credits as a sort of lengthy opening shots. let the audience dictate distance.

11. Storyboard
This is the first shot of the actor opening the door Then the following shot is on the reverse side but
from this side. continuing the shot of the actor opening and shutting
the door.
This is one of the first over the shoulder shots we used It was then reversed to allow the other character to
for the main conversation. talk and continue their dialogue

12. Storyboard
This is the final shot of a close up of the handshake
between the two characters and a title over the top of
the scene to signal the end of the movie.

13. How each rule was used
180 degree rule – We used this by simply following it by
staying one side it proved difficult not with the running
scenes but with the dialogue but we managed to make it
work.
Match on action – We used this by opening the door and
closing t but on opposite shots and we did this successfully.
Shot reverse shot – We used this by having over the
shoulder shots for the conversation between the two actors
and reversed the shots each time to focus on the specific
actor that was talking.

14. Dialogue
James Fitch: I’ve been expecting you.
Declan Flannery: Good, so God called, Have you got the
Frankincense
JF: Yeah
DF: Shall I get Keith on the phone?
JF: Get Keith on the phone.
DF: Yeah, you alright Keith? You need to get down here it’s
happening, God called both of us, Baby Jesus going to be born a
few hours from now in Bethlehem, alright get down here now
and bring the myrrh, see you later.
JF: I better pack my bags and we better be going.

15. Location Photographs
We used these stairs for the beginning This was definitely our best running
shots because it gave us a good idea scene shot with the wide angle on the
for the 180 degree rule and enabled us camera to enable the actor to run
to have a few good shots to start the from one end to the other. It worked
running scenes. really well and we were lucky to have
no disruptions in the background.

16. Location Photographs Continued
This was definitely our best running This is the reverse shot of before the
scene shot with the wide angle on the actor runs through this door and as
camera to enable the actor to run the shot continues he runs past the
from one end to the other. It worked camera. This worked well because we
really well and we were lucky to have could add action and some noises
no disruptions in the background. which just intensified the running
scene backed up by the music.

17. Actors & Props
Actors:
• Declan Flannery – First Wise Man (Melchior)
• James Fitch – Second Wise Man (Gaspar)
Props:
• IPhone

18. Filming log
Attempt 1: For this we just tried to get an idea of what areas of
the school we could use for filming and at this point we didn’t
have finalised idea for our video, we were improvising a lot of
dialogue used and camera shots were extremely basic. But I
believe we needed this for experience and it worked out in the
long run as the feedback we received for this first piece of filming
was constructive and helped a lot.
Attempt 2: For this try of filming we had finally got an idea of the
areas we had for filming and it gave us the idea of having a
running scene for the intro which I thought the credits could run
over which we have included in our final video. When we took
this filming back the response we got was much better and we
were able to have our final idea of the three wise men which was
a big boost.

19. Filming Log Continued
Attempt 3: Now that we had space finalised and our idea thought
of, This was one of our most successful filming sessions we were able
to get majority of the running filmed that we kept for the final piece
with help of editing, we then got a lot of the dialogue thought of
through improvisation from the actors: Me and James. The criticism
we got for this filming was from our teacher and even thought a lot of
flaws were found it enabled us to improve a lot and that’s what we
did.
Attempt 4: We worked on the improvements we had received from
our teacher and a lot of shots were fixed for the intro such as close ups
and we worked on match on action and shot reverse shot, These shots
weren't used for our final but they helped us to understand the shot
more. When we got comments about this filming it was from the
whole class because I had edited this and problems were still evident
but it gave use more work and filming to do to try and perfect this film.

20. Film Log Final
Attempt 5: This was our last round of filming and the introduction
and running was perfected with editing so we had to re-film all of
the dialogue and match on action and shot reverse shot we did
this by filming the dialogue multiple times from both shoulders
of the actors and then I edited them separately so they flowed
together. We had received a lot of criticism about our match on
action for the door opening but we re-filmed from both sides and
perfected that as well with editing. Finally we had to film me
acting talking on the phone to the third wise man ‘Keith’ which
we used a close up for to see the phone and the actor and it
worked finally. So this was then edited and we had our final
video.

21. Editing
We used Windows Movie Maker for our editing it is basic but
enabled us to do each task successfully, their were a few
technical problems. But we were able to edit correctly all the
scenes we wanted to and then we could add extra music that was
bought from ITunes and then we could merge it into the
scene, We were able to edit all timings correctly after re-filming a
lot of scenes that we were realised couldn’t be edited to look
good enough we finally got our finalised video. We were able to
include really good credits that layered over the top of the video
which I believe worked really well for our opening scene.