Continuity Task Questions

1. What planning did you do for your filming task, and how did this planning aid in the filming?

We had to find a location that would invole the things needed in the task. The task had to include

• Walking through a door
• sitting down
• exchanging 2 or more lines of dialogue

Once we had decsided on the situiation we choose that the actors would be Sarah and Dan while Miriam and myself would do the camera work and the setting. We all drawed out our own storyboards how we thought it should be shot. This included : camera angles and where the cast was ment to sit and how. This made the filming and direction alot easier because we just had to follow what we had decsided to do.

2. What is the 180 degree rule, and how is this rule important to your filming task?

The 180 degree rule is having the shot the same side as the actors. This means that you can not go from filming from the left hand side of the actors and the filming on the right hand side. For the continuity task Dan was on the right hand side of the camera and Sarah was always on the left hand side of the camera this is how we kept to the 180 degree rule. This makes it easier for the audience to understand. If you kept on fliping the shot of the actors from left to right.

3.What shot type and camera angles did you use in your filming task, and to what effect?