Film Practice

In todays lesson we learnt more about different types of shots that we could use in our Thriller. The shots included a match cut which is where a transition that involves a direct cut from one shot to another, which "matches" it in action, subject matter, or actual composition. This kind of transition is commonly used to follow a character as s/he moves or appears to move continuously. Film continuity is often dependent on match cutting. Match cutting can also be used in a montage sequence, to show a similar activity occurring over a passage of time.
We used this today in our film practice frequently and found that it made the seen much more interesting for example as shown previously in the viedo the actress (Lauren) walks into a room but instead of showing this from one standared shot we used a match cut which also enabled the group and i to include various types of angled shots which we thought would increase the quality of our work. I personally thought that this would make the scene much more interesting and enjoyable to watch instead of using the average one shot as we could see the scene from several angles and learn a lot of key elements to the scene which in our case included a bag in the actresses hand which was a crucial part of our short scene.
Unforunately due to previous absenses and complications this was the first time that this final group and i had worked together unlike other groups in the class. I initially thought that this would be an issue as it takes some time for people to work well with one another and communicate sufficiently together but this did not come to be an issue within this group as we all knew what was needed to be done and the roles that we played.
Filming comes quite naturally for me so i thought that it was vital that my role was behind the camera so that the group could do the best and this also allowed me to grow in the filming department. This was approved by my group which meant that we could promptly begin filming giving us more time with editing which is for me the hardest part of producing a film scene.
We continued filming quickly as we had planned the shots that we were going to take and filmed them instantly. The group and i then had half of the lesson to begin editing and it was here that we wanted to get a headstart and hopefully complete all of our editing at once, but we were aware that many problems can sometimes appear on the footage making the editing process that much more difficult and we remained cautious just in case any did show up on our work increasing the time that we had to spend on it.
But we were still unaware of what was yet to come.