What Is Continuity Editing?, 180 degree rule?, Match on action?, and Shot/Reverse shot?

Continuity editing: Continuity editing is when you are filming something, for example someone going through a door from a long shot, and as they are about to open the door, from another shot say a close up it shows the person opening the door. So it is like doing the same thing in different shots, so continuing the same action, from different camera shots.

180 degree rule: The 180 degree rule is a very simple rule in filming, and it is when you are fiming, for example two people, and you are not aloud to go more than 180 degrees round them with the camera otherwise it will confuse the audience by thinking that the actor has turned around or something like that, which would probably confuse them.

Match on action: This is when a continuity cut which unites two different views of the same action together at the same moment in the movement, making the shot seem to continue.

Shot/Reverse shot: This is a very hard and interesting shot, because you have to get the timing and voice tone right. This is when you have, for example an over shoulder veiw of a person who is speaking, and then switching the shot to the other persons shoulder so that you see the other person speaking, but it is all in the same conversation, which makes it hard and you have to use editing to the best of your ability.

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generally good jahmal, covers all areas well!

A Case Study Of A Film Opening

The film opening which I have chosen as my favourite fim is Hancock.

Before the fim starts the opening sequence tells us that it is by Overbrook Entertainment as the fims company, and it also says Columbia Pictures Presents, showing that this film was made by them. It then comes up with a few other production companies like Relativity Media. There are a few prodution companies which include Blue Light, Weed Road Pictures, and Overbrook Entertainment. After telling us all of that it then flashes up with the films name.

I really like the way that it shows us which companies it's by, and then jumps straight into action with a car chase. I really like the way that in the opening scene they keep jumping from the action packed car chase, into Hancock who is just laying down on a bench drunk. To get the mood flowing they add some music which sounds like it is played on a harmonica, and they make it faster and loud when the camera is on the car chase, but they make it really soft and relaxing when the camera is on Hancock, who is played by actor Will Smith.

There is not a point in the introduction to the first three minutes where there is not any action which I think would make the audience excited, and really grab their attention. In my opinion I think that the setting is very well planned out, but I didn't notice to much about the lighting.

I think that this film opening is very action packed and exciting, which is why I chose to publish it on my blog.

Case Study Of A Film Opening

I tried to screen grab but i didn't know how to do it.


As you can see, this is the screen shot of when Juno is about to open her sunny delight. In my Juno opening sequence which I did with my partner, looks a little different because we did our screen shot of this on the wrong side. There were ways of editing the shot so that it was flipped to make it be on the other side, but we accidently misplaced this scene, not realizing that we had done this shot the wrong way round.

Eventhough our shot of this is the wrong way round, I think that if it was the other way it would look very similar to the real thing, because we took a lot of time to get our shots accurate and very close to the real thing.

My Juno Film Opening Review

For this task we had to watch the opening to the film Juno. After watching the opening to Juno several times we then had to make our own openings to Juno. We started off by making storyboards which had to be like the exact shots in the actual Juno fim, which was actually quite challenging because if we didn't get the right shots then we would be stuffed, because we had to rely on our shots to make the film look the same as the original. When we were filming we had to get the camera angles in the position and we had to also bring the correct props, and find suitable locations which was actually fun, and made us all work well as a group.

When we had finished filming our sequence to the opening of Juno, we then had to start editing it on final cut express. To edit we had to work in pairs, and I worked with Max, and I think that we worked very well together. After we had got every shot in the right order we then went on to puting the music to the right time of each shot which was actually easy.

Towards the end of editing me and Max went on to try something that no-one else did, which was very hard and challenging, and this was to make our film cartoonized to make it have that cartoon effect which we succeeded in. In my opinion our opening to juno was the best because we tried something different and what didn't know how to use properly. I really enjoyed the task, and I think that it went very well.

My Juno Film Opening

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Good on the two clips you have chosen. Does need more on Final cut and Shifty stuff.

For the post on Shifty, you need to say more about how the moodboard task worked and how it was based on a particular scene and trying to give a sense of atmosphere from that. Later you will be creating moodboards for your own project ideas.

You could do with a bit more detail in your post on how you used the technology (especially final Cut) Which tools did you learn to use?
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Postcard by Jahmal Crowe

This is the postcard that I created today in photoshop.

I think that my final image is exactly how i intended it to be, which was to have the statue of liberty holding a dog which is exactly how it is displayed on the postcard. i think the image I have created makes an interesting combination between the two of them. I also like how i have added the creative and media text up the side of the postcard, and I think that the the colours stand out as they kind of relate to some of the colours in the image.

I used a variety of tools, such as the blur tool to make the sides of the image look smooth, I used the horizontal type tool to create text on the image, and I used the brush tool.

I also had to go on to the bar at the top, where i had to transform the scale and rotate the image to make it the right size and shape. i found this to be very useful, and it made my postcard look better.

I would have liked to make the sky in the background like a red colour which would have made everything else stand out. Overall i think that it went well.

Other students film

This is an AS students film called R1 18 and this is the opening to the film.

Strengths of the film: the strengths of this students film are the camera angles. I like how each camera position is set, and I especially liked the effect that they used, to have two frames on the same screen. I think that the film its self was scripted well. The camera shots were done very effectively aswell, and I liked how they didn't stay in the same camera shot for ages. They had a good technique in different types of camera shots aswell, for example they used close-ups, mid-shots, and long shots, but one after the other.

Weaknesses of the film: I thought that the acting wasn't very good as it looked unreal. Some of the techniques that they used in this film weren't displayed very well and although i liked the fact that they didn't keep on one camera shot for long, I feel that they should have spent a bit more time on each shot.

film opening - Contact

For my homework i had to look at three film openings from a link, and i had to choose one to analyse. The three film openings that i looked at were Casino Royale, Contact, and A new hope. I chose to post Contact on my blog.

I found "contact" to be the best film opening because it was interesting the way the camera was zooming out the whole way at a constant speed, and as it got towards the end it sped up. The opening basicaly shows our solar system and zooms out to the universe which then zooms out to a persons eye. At the start of the opening it is very dark, there is also a mix of different types of music. The first shot zooms out from the earth into a long shot with the sun, moon, and earth. the camera stays in one position throughout the whole opening of the universe. In the middle of the opening lots of bright colours form, and the music fades away into no sound.It looks like it is going back through time because the camera zooms out and moves backwards.
At the end it zooms out from the universe and in the same shot goes into an extreme close-up of a persons eye. This connotes that there is a whole universe inside of us.

There were lots of techniques which i learnt on the final cut express program. i learnt how to cut some of the film that i didn't need to use which was very useful. learning how to fade was very useful for the film me and my partner created on final cut express because fading was a big priority for our film as we had to find a way to merge two thing together and fading helped.
our film was called fly over.


I think that our film went well and i now know how to use final cut express. i can now use it for basic skills.

I think that final cut express was brilliant to use as it's like nothing that I have ever used before. I really enjoyed editing my film, and the tools which I used on final cut express really helped me to achieve this goal. On final cut I learnt how to use many tools such as moving the scenes and audio into the right place, I also learnt how to fade images into each other, and i now know how to cartoonize films now aswell.

moodboard

This is my moodboard which I made in a group on friday the 11th september for the film shifty.

I think that this task was very interesting because we had to work in groups which made all of us interact with each other. This made everyone feel much more comfortable with each other.

I think that my moodboard is very interesting and is full of lots of ideas, mainly to do with the type of people in Shifty. In this moodboard that me and my group created there is also some words like (addiction), (naughty secrets), and more which reflects on what is happening in the film shifty and what the characters are up to.

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