CONTINUITY EXERCISE

Aim: storyboard and film a brief conversation / confrontation between two parties.

For this exercise, I worked with Jess, Charlotte, Tom and Preesha. We began by brainstorming ideas for the continuity exercise – we landed on the idea of a ‘who wants to be a millionaire’ We drew a storyboard which revealed what we would include, including the mise-en-scene, the camera angels and the editing.

We made sure to include all these:

1.   establishing shot (= where the action takes place, to 'establish' it for the audience) for us, we did a wide angle shot of Charlotte and Tom in the studio.

2.     mid shot of character A already in place – Tom sitting in place

3.     character B arrives, making a two-shot (a shot with two characters) – charlotte as the guest on the show.

4.     A series of shot-reverse shots delivers the dialogue (over the shoulder shots
that will be edited together in order) – the conversation between Tom and Charlotte discussing the ‘millionaire questions’.

5.     another two-shot bring the narrative to a close in any way that fits – the introduction of Jess’s character who gives help to charlotte for the question.

7.     In post-production we edited the scenes together and used the ‘who wants to be a millionaire’ studio for the backdrop for the green screen.  

From this exercise I further developed by skills of editing and using a greenscreen which taught me many useful techniques which I can successfully use for course work.