Draft - Evaluation Activity 7 - What We've Learned

We learned to keep proper continuity between the shots over the course of the shooting. With few exceptions, we managed to keep all costumes and props and the like consistent. In the preliminary, we had a few problems, such as shooting different shots on different days which resulted in me having different clothing in a lot of the shots, as well as having the reflection of Tom and the camera in the shot of the door by accident. We managed to keep a list of things to do when setting up for each filming session, which included the room and our clothing, and the only thing different between each of the days generally was the newspaper on the floor (which wasn’t really detectable anyway).

During the preliminary we learned to link shots appropriately (match-on action) and keep action between them continuous. This shows through in the final product when the killer leaves the room and when he goes to kill the guy in the chair (where the blood shows up on the floor after he picks up the knife, and where the camera angle changes when he goes out through the back door).

When writing the original scripts and storyboards we had a conversation (that concluded in the abduction of one of the talkers), which we knew how to do properly due to learning about the 180-degree rule and shot/reverse-shot during the preliminary task.