Personal analysis of my continuity piece


I am in a group of three, consisting of Tom, Ismail and myself. Our continuity piece of coursework was to produce a short clip showing we understood some basic rules of filming and using cameras. These were;

• Being able to set up the tripod and the camera.
• Use different types of camera angles including shot reverse shot.
• Not to break the 180 degree rule.
• To show a match on action in our clip.

Ismail worked as the director and was in charge of the camera as he has more experience than me and Tom as he has already completed a year of media. Me and Tom were the actors and concentrated on how we were going to show the rules of filming in our clip. We did this by producing a storyboard which can be seen on another post in this blog.

We made some mistakes at the start as when we were recording seperate clips we were pausing the camera to watch the clip back. This was affecting the recording as when we then started to record another scene, all the scenes were getting jumbled up and being lost. We came to realise this problem though and conquered it by recording our entire clip without playing anything back. This cost us valuable time though and next time we will learn from this mistake as we have deadlines and may be short on time. Our clip showed we have a good knowledge of a wide range of camera shots and they were used effectively in our short narrative. We also filmed our clip without breaking the 180 degree rule and constructed our match on action perfectly so we are pleased with our performance.

We did most of our filming in an empty classroom so there was no problem with people getting in the way of the camera. Overall we as a team are happy with our piece of coursework and are confident of getting positive feedback off our teacher and fellow classmates.