12 B, Group 1, Accident
The aims of the task set for our group were to convey continuity through six shots, including an accident in half an hour. We chose to film a simple and understandable narrative which was an accident including a boy (Ray) and a girl (Me) , in order to focus on achieving a narrative flow.
The first shot introduces the characters and pans to follow them whilst the boy is listening to music and the girl is consumed by what she is reading - both characters are quite oblivious to their surroundings. Therefore when the boys headphones suddenly become unplugged after her has gone through the door in shot number three (over the shoulder medium close up), the girl doesn't realise and inevitably pushes the door into him causing him to bounce off of the wall and become slightly dazed (final shot, low close up). This project therefore successfully met the targets of presenting an accident in six shots.
Our group attempted to create narrative flow, through trying to keep the characters in the same positioning after each shot and not breaking the 180 degree camera shot rule. As well as this shots were not varied too much as this may confuse the audience and break the narrative flow.
However as this was our first filming task, and the fact that we only had 30 minuets without a storyboard made this difficult to achieve. Between each shot there is a 'jolt' as the characters are not positioned in the same place and the shots are too similar (mainly medium shots). as well as this during shot three my character actually sees Rays character through the glass windows in the door, which is not a realistic situation for an 'accident'.
We did not achieve full continuity so in hindsight a storyboard may have made this task easier because we could visualise the shots during the pre-production period. finally to improve this task further I believe our group should have included diegetic dialogue between characters (especially from shot 4 onwards) to improve the clarity of out narrative.
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