Planning our continuity edit

We planned our continuity piece over a few short lessons; it didn’t need a lot of time to storyboard and plan as a group because the idea was to keep it short but focus on the plot to show more than just basic examples of continuity. After the basic storyline had been produced we continued to gather the appropriate props and found the location we would need, which turned out to only be a plastic small knife and some work shop equipment. We wrote out a quick script, this didn’t take a lot of time either as there was minimal dialogue, we wanted to focus more so on building an atmosphere than anything else. 

We planned the whole video as a group, each putting forward ideas and different methods; I took on the role of creating a list of camera angles and script- this use of organisation meant that we could film quickly and effectively. We proceeded to film in the lesson that followed this, once we had decided our location and everyone was available, due to our organisation we finished filming within an hour and could edit straight away. We were very lucky as a group that everyone was available and able to contribute to the filming process so that we could get it done quickly, the piece was filmed simply with an iPhone camera- your basic 8 mega pixels. However, much to our surprise, the quality was more than satisfactory and in time. We were also able to find an editing ‘app’ which made it much easier and took us less time to complete this process, we were able to produce a nice little and simple continuity edit.