Continuity

A continuity exercise, which is what we shall be producing, is where different shots that are filmed, are put together smoothly so that the different clips do not look odd, and so that the storyline of the film still makes sense. It takes the story forwards, without having to shoot hours and hours of film to show what is happening; this would take far too long to watch, and is not practical.
The different clips could be from different angles, and even different scenes, but aslong as they are edited together to make sense, then this is known as continuity.
Directors would have to look out for mistakes though, for example if a person was shown eating a sandwhich in one scene, and in the next something different, then the clips would not look right added together.

This video explains the reason why video's and films need continuity, and why things are a problem without them.

180 Degree Rule

The 180 degree rule is a filming guidline where two characters who are shown in the same scene should always have a left/right relationship to eachother. An Imaginary line is created when shooting, and the two characters can only be filmed on one side of the line; if the camera was to film from the other side of the line then it would not look right because they would be facing the opposite direction to the clip beforehand, and would confuse the viewer.

Shot/Reverse Shot

Shot/Reverse shot is normally used when two people are engaging in conversation. The camera would film the first person talking, and then the second. They are however, filmed facing opposite directions; this gives the impression to the viewer that the two people are talking to and looking at eachother rather than at someone else.
The camera is sometimes shot from over the persons shoulder, further showing that the two people are talking to one another.

Match On Action

Since we are creating a continuity excercise, one of the features which we crucially have to use with be 'Match On Action', this is basically where the character being filmed doing something, this could be anything from cooking a meal, catching a train or playing a game, is filmed from various angles, or the camera is focusing on various parts of whatever they are doing. These are normally only a couple of different shots, which are then edited together smoothly so that they still easily show the storyline.
Even if the clips are filmed at different times of the day, they can still be added together (match on action/cutting on action) to give the impression everything was happening at the same time.

This video clearly shows an example of  'Match on action' to explain further.

First Post

Hey, I'm Lauren.

I'm 16 and currently attenting Post 16, taking Art, Media Studies, Psychology and English Language.
Although my main career choice should hopefully be somewhat related to Art, I have always been insterested in Media and actually a huge hobby of mine is Photography and casually filming things that happen in my life. I have a love for films, and actually was hugely inspired to take Media Studies by my favourite movie director, Tim Burton.
I also hope that the subject will be fun and fairly interesting and so-far have enjoyed it.

This blog will be for my AS Media Studies progect at Ken Stimpson Community School, where I will record everything that happens during the course.
For this project we will be creating a short film/video and I will post every now-and-then about how it is coming along and what me and my team have been doing.
Let's see how this goes!