Preliminary Task

I created a short film of around two minutes to show a job interview between two people involving a variety of shots. I made sure I stuck to the 180 degree rule by keeping the camera on the same side of the characters so that the camera never suddenly changed sides without another establishing shot. I took a match on action shot of the character walking into the room and shooting from different angles, we don’t see all the full shots of the character walking in and sitting down but we see a quick long shot from the door cutting to a mid shot of the character sitting down which also shows the continuity of the situation through the shot. I included a shot reverse shot of the two characters during their conversation to show the reactions of both characters in a dramatic way through using a close up.


Continuity editing is when shots are pasted together so that it follows through a sequence/ story and is easy to work out the situation. A montage of shots would be the opposite of this as it usually creates various enigmas through a wide variety of clips within films. Continuity editing is often used to follow characters situations and for the audience to understand or clearly see the storyline.


My preliminary task gave me a chance to get used to the editing software on the Mac’s and work out how to add transitions and other effects. I prefer using final cut pro on the Mac computers as opposed to windows movie maker at home as final cut pro is a lot quicker and you can view a clip in sections or as a whole or both at the same time, it also comes with a wider variety of editing effects to add and it is easier to organise clips and paste them together.


Below is my preliminary task.