Continuity

Overall I have prominently improved and have widened my knowledge and skills. I have also gained a better understanding of how to use all the techniques needed and to put my skills that I have acquired to create a successful opening sequence.

Explanation:The 180 degree rule consists of having the camera filming only one side of a circular radius - it states that two characters in a sense should maintain the same left/right relationship to one another. When the camera passes over the invisible axis connecting the two subjects

Opening sequence: In this scene I made sure that
I kept to one side of Molly (victim) as she is looking
at the abductor. From the prelim, I improved the camera angle to make it slightly more to one side to get the side the side of Molly to make it clear that the 180 degree rule is being used.

Prelim: This is our prelim task demonstrating
the 180 degree rule. To show this clearly we
made sure to angle the camera to one side so
the character can be seen.

Explanation of how you have developed in terms of your titles:
With the titles, we started playing around and adding  any titles to get the feel for what we were looking for and then from that with those ideas in mind we were able to pick  the perfect fonts that fitted and reflected our sub genre. This greatly improved the whole look of our opening sequence and made it look professional. The task of adding the titles were very easy and we finally created a good title movements within our opening sequence.

Prelim: Here our titles are very simple and bare and don't fit in with our genre at all which is not creative at all.

Opening sequence: Here we used a much more suited and professional font that resembled our sub genre. This gave the title movement which ended our opening sequence on a dramatic crux.

Explanation: This technique is where one character is shown looking at another character who is off screen and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character.

Prelim: This shot we used in our prelim task is of a mid shot of the teacher waiting for the student then cutting to the student who is running late to class. This is significant as it draws attention to the fact the teacher is angry and also shows he has more importance and of a higher status.

Opening Sequence: This shot we used in our Opening Sequence is of the abductor looking down at Molly. It then cuts back to a close up of Molly's face looking up at him. This is significant as it draws attention to the violence towards Molly.

Explanation: Match on action refers to the film editing techniques where the editor cuts from one shot to another that matches the first shot.

Prelim: In this shot is where the student is running to the door because he is late and then cuts to him opening the door. When the student opens the door in the second shot there is a second delay so in our opening sequence we will improve this by making the shots run smoothly into each other.

Opening Sequence: In our opening sequence is a shot where the abductor is looking at a tool and then walks over to where Molly is, implying that he is going to use it on her and then the next shot is a pan to the right to show where Molly is.

Explanation of how you have developed in terms of your Mise-En-Scene and understanding of the importance of all aspects of this: Mise- En-scene is a very significant and if not done well can ruin a scene and make it look unrealistic, with this in mind we made sure that every scene was perfect. We kept to an untidy, dirty theme to represent the characters and their emotions and throughout the whole of our opening sequence we made sure that we stuck to this.

Prelim: In this we kept to the scene/ theme of a school to make it seem much more realistic.

Opening sequence: Here we took care in creating a messy environment which was a key aspect to our opening sequence as audiences can understand what our genre is and so have a clear idea of what the film might be about.

Explanation of how you have developed in terms of your editing and understanding of the importance of different techniques: We improved significantly throughout this journey. I have widened my knowledge extensively and have acquired a range of different skills.

Prelim: In our prelim task we have used limited editing technology due to the fact of our lack of knowledge of using final cut pro.

Opening sequence: In our opening sequence, after a number of failed attempts we finally learnt the techniques required to  produce a successful opening sequence and incorporated them to where they fitted the scenes best. We also added titles that fitted with our sub  genre and played around with different shots and framing that built up to create the last title movement.

Explanation: I have developed so many new skills in not only understanding the different continuity rules but how to use them and make the scenes flow.

I have also learnt new possibilities on how to use these rules which has enabled me to create a perfectly flowing open sequence. I enjoyed experimenting with different kinds of shots and angles and how they have connected to the framing. I have developed my own understanding of successful shots by the opening sequence, by using my own knowledge and applying it to create interesting and intriguing frames. Nethertheless, I have used the idea of movement in which we used in different ways one of which was the tilted angle to add to the effect.

Prelim: The prelim was boring and therefore we improved the types of framing significantly in our opening sequence. This scene is a medium shot, the purpose being to show that the character was in a teachers office. Personally I found this scene not interesting or intriguing at all due to the fact that we didn't do anything else to it.

Opening Sequence: We improved dramatically since the frames we did in our prelim. This worked to our advantage as we now had a clear idea in how to frame it much more efficiently. This scene (and most of our scenes) I purposely cropped the abductors head out of the frame to add a sense of an underlying mystery.