New Rivalries - AS Media Continuity

AS Media continuity work. Shot at Walton High School in one afternoon.

Dialogue exchange between Haran Timana and Adam Dean

Director - Chris Dean
Cameraman/Editor - Sam Pearson (used Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9)
Chief Detective - Adam Dean
Rookie - Haran Timana
Runner - Hannah Sones

After we were assigned a continuity piece, our group, who consisted of , Myself, Sam Pearson, Adam Dean , Chris Dean and Hannah Sones. We came up with ideas straight away with what the continuity piece would consist of, our first ideas are shown below;

After much consideration way came among Idea 2 which was about two detectives pursuing a criminal and the exchange in dialogue would come from the two detectives. We kept most of the original ideas whilst filming, however, we decided that it would look better if the two detectives, who were myself and Adam to be situated in a car at the beginning of the scene. We were given permission from our AS Media teacher to use his car, we thought that his make of car would look suitable for the situation. During the planning process of the continuity piece we had a good idea of where we wanted to film, we decided that the runner would hide in the boiler room underneath the swimming pool, however, we needed permission to use the space.

During playback we noticed that at 0:12 seconds into the continuity, it shows Adam getting out of the car on the right, however at 0:15 it shows Adam again on the right hand side chasing the runner (Hannah), but at the opposite angle. Adam should of been on the left hand side but at the time we wanted Adam to be closest to the camera so viewers could clearly see his gun which was in his hand. During filming we had not realised that we had made such a mistake.

I believe that we were successful in the making of the continuity piece, we knew that we have to overcome hurdles such as what time of day to film. We decided to film straight after lunch to avoid the sunset, it proved to be successful as there was no sudden change in the lighting.