Skills audit: filming and editing preliminary Match Cut exercise

Unfortunately, due to illness, I did not attend the lesson that our group was going to film the originally planned story board in. Therefore i attended a catch up class after college where we re-storyboarded the short film. When storyboarding we were careful to include possible shots for match cuts and avoid breaking the 180 degree rule.

The first shot was a long shot of our actor, Moe, walking down the corridor. After looking at the final piece I think improve this shot and make it a more interesting piece of film we could have shot cutaways of closeups on his feet however we didn't have enough time to do this. The next shot was where we choose to use a match cut. To do with this we panned the end of the first shot as Moe
opened the door one side and then shot a upper body shot of Moe opening the door from the other side.

We then filmed an over the sholder shot of Moe walking towards our Actress to introduce more of a varitey of shots. However this did not entirely work because as Moe sits down the girls head hides his face. Next time when filming we must be more careful and pay alot of attention to continuity. The piece of film finishes with a shot reverse shot which should have been at eye level because we filmed it too high giving the wrong effect we were trying to achive.

To edit the clip we used final cut pro which was good practice for our thriller opening espcially when doing match cuts. We also got to practice putting the camera on the tripod and taking off.