7. Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?
- These first three set of screengrabs are from my preliminary tasks.
The first thing you will realsise is that we used 2 different cameras and because at the time this was our first filming experience we did not realise that they were in the same mode. In the first picture the film fits the screen where as in the second camera the height of the clip isn't quite high enough. However I believe that I managed to acheived match on action well as my teacher taught me how it was possible to veiw the clip in the editing programme that we use frame by frame and by this method it was easy to cut the clip exactly when I first saw the door open from both cameras to create a smooth effect.
This is another example of my use of match on action however if I were to do this know I would probably have Dasha pulling out the chair now with her hand so we could focus on that aswell to give an even better match on action.
This is the conversation between Janice and Dasha and by obeying to the 180 degree rule we were able to make the conversation look as though the two girls were indeed looking at eachother, the new shot, from the opposite side, is known as a reverse angle. Because they were facing eachother we had to make sure that we couldn't see the other camera in the background. This therefore obeys the 180 degree rule which can be defined as a basic guideline in filming where two actors in the same scene must always have the same left/right relationship to eachother. If the camera passes over the line that runs between them (or on the other side of them) it is called crossing the line.
-These next three sets of screen grabs are from the beginning sequence to my movie:
As you can see from the first to the second frame of these it is another match on action however I have used other techniques along witht this basic one. The fact that the first clip is from infront of the car shows just how big this space is that the girl is going to be alone in; and the second shot is done handheld and from behind a bush portrays how it is from the stalkers point of veiw. I've learnt this since my preliminary task, and also from the varying camera angels which used to be basic but now show that there is a close up, and they're not just all long shots.
Here is the match on action of the girl walking through the door but instead of just matching up when a door opens which was the basic idea that I used in the preliminary task I decided to have a close up of the daughters hands on the lock as it varies up the clips but also the third shot in this three shows how eventhough the father told the girl to lock the door she ignored this, thinking that what he said wasn't important and by leaving the door unlocked we see this.
Both of these shots portray another way of filming from the stalker's point of veiw. In the first clip I made sure that we could see the actors hand and by moving towards the house this looks as though he is walking towards the daughter. In the second shot the girl is being filmed from above which symbolises that she is being watched again. The fact that some-one might be above her makes her look defenceless and gives the stalker a higher level of importance. I learnt this through watching film openings such as Terminator where Arnold Shwartzanager is always being filmed from below, giving him the control which uses to his advantage.
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