Skills audit: filming and editing preliminary match cut exersise

Once our final idea for our match cut exercise was ready, our group simply stuck to the storyboard and hit off with the recording as soon as our lesson begun. We brought together the equipment with the tri pod and the camera, we set them up and began taking various and varied shots of what we needed. It was important to keep the camera in focus and also as we where told before hand to follow the ‘180 degree’ rule, simply by not breaking this rule by not having the camera shoot shots from opposing sides of the room, it allowed us to keep a sense of flow which was vital in making it successful.

The two actor in our sequence where Sanita Kaur and Rojda Dere, I did the recording and managed to catch an Arial shot, shot reverse shot when they where in conversation. When Rojda enters the room in our clip we caught a close-up of the door hand and then caught her in mid-shot closing the door, then instantly changing the camera position to the other side of the door catching her entering. It was essential to keep every prop in chairs, hats, clothes and chairs in place as by moving objects it quickly becomes obvious that this clip is unprofessional. When we were recording the sound was vital, there was a clear amount of dialogue and we had to keep the surroundings quiet in order to reach a high amount of clarity. Once Rojda was in conversation with Sanita in our clip we had to lower the camera by reducing the tripod legs slightly always remembering that it had to even.

After catching all our shots we hit the editing suite, and made our clips into compilation of clips, keeping the slightest glitch to a minimum allowing it to look professional. All the clips where match cut together and the sound in the dialogue had to fit on par to the others.