Jack's prelim evaluation

During filming we shot each scene twice to make sure we had a back up clip incase one of them didn't look correct or look natural, in an aim to make our scene look as natural as possible. This meant filming each clip from different angles and through editing choose the best one. 

Continuity editing was important to create one continuous motion, making it look realistic instead of having one clip following the person, making it look unprofessional. For example, entering and exiting the door had to be done in three takes as to make it look continuous, without following the person, we had to film on the inside of the door; the person approaching

the door, pushing the handle, and the outside; the person with their hand on the handle, to show the continuous motion from the clip before hand, and walking out of the door.

We aimed to make the prelim a mystery/ gangster theme and through editing we were able to add corresponding music when editing, fitting the mood, creating a flowing atmosphere.

We have conformed to match on action, a rule of continuity editing, as we showed the continuous movement of the character opening the door and walking through, which looked fluent. Through the look of the one swift movement, created through editing to make the opening of the door and the walking through the door, look like it was in the same movement. This is done to look effective and realistic to the audience watching.

Through following the shot reverse shot rule, usually used during a conversation, we made the talking between the two characters look natural, which is easy on the eye of the person watching. By using over the shoulder shots, and the 180 degree rule, when both characters are faced directly opposite each other, a conversation is carried out and through editing, it is slick and fast.

We conformed to the 180 degree rule to make the audience feel at ease with the story. By following the rule, we made sure that the camera position was was on one side of the actors, as we didn't want to confuse the audience, because when seeing both sides of the characters in a scene, it would be confusing and hard to understand for the audience.