Snapshots of chosen settings & scenes

1. Tegan will be sat on this sofa, about to ring Ella.

This is a suitable setting for this particular scene as we will stop the public walking into our set whilst filming. We will add a couple of blankets over the sofa to create a homely effect.

2. Ella smoking outside on a buildings corner, phone rings.

 There will be little distraction in this shot as the background is based on a wall although there are windows just above but these will not be visible when filming. We will not need to add any large props in this scene to create any effect.

3. Tegan walking to meeting point

Tegan will be recorded walking from one side of the frame to the other. This scene may be hard to record as it is the college's entrance/exit so will have students passing by any time. We will try shooting here but may have to change if we get unwanted sounds in the background.

4. Ella walking towards meeting point

 (in opposite direction)

We will also record Ella walking from one side of the frame to the other. This shot should be no problem as of the fence is in the background is a barrier of distraction.

5. Meeting point

The grotty looking corner of a building seemed suitable for the theme of the shot, to make their environment look run down. This is a simple shot just to show the girls meeting to end the cross cutting of Ella and Tegan walking to meet.

6. Sitting down for 'the chat' inside

Chose to shoot in the far corner of the common room to avoid distractions as it is one of the busiest rooms in college, but are planning to film during last lesson as we know it will be a quiet time to shoot in it.



Original Storyboard

Our script !!

Scene 1

(Parallel scene. Tegan sitting, on a sofa, at home. Switches to Ella, smoking outside)

(Tegan sighs and picks up phone to call Ella. Ella’s phone rings, she dances and answers it.)

Ella: Hey babygirl

Tegan: Hiya, what you doing (sounding mellow)

Ella: Just having a ciggy

Tegan: Oh right, listen babe, we need to have a chat.

Ella: okay are you alright?

Tegan: yeah I’m fine, where’d you wona meet?

Ella: how about round the back alley

Tegan: ite, see you there.

End scene.

Scene 2

(Cross cutting scene. Tegan is walking. Switches to Ella walking)

(finally meet)

Ella: alright babe, what’s up? (Concerned)  (Starts to witter on about last night)

T: (tries to interrupt)

E: (carries on)

T: Babe just listen!

E: what?

T: There’s no easy way to say this…

E: what is it you’re scaring me?

T: I’m…I’m preggers!

E: I don’t understand

T: I’m up the duff.

E: shut up! Who is the father?

T: well this is what I wanted to talk to you about. Well, you know the party the other night, I, I , slept with Ricky

E: Ricky? My Ricky?

T: Your Ricky….  I’m so sorry… (cries)

E: you filthy cow! (slap)

Scene plan including the continuity editing

1. Tegan at home, picks up mobile to ring Ella                               - Will be located in the college's hub seating area with sofa's to imply a homely statement, or other available areas around the college that include this.    

      - This will be a medium long shot , too much exposure in the frame e.g. using a long shot 

          may show too much background and ruin the setting. Using a medium long shot is        

          comfortable with little background being shown.

 

      2.  Ella is outside somewhere and answers her phone

      - Will be filming Ella standing in front of a part of the college's wall outside to show little       

          distraction coming from people that may be passing by.

          - This will also be a medium long shot so the audience can see the phone is the main 

          subject in this shot.

( After these two shots parallel editing will be introduced which will be used for the transition for at least 4 more shots that will only change in shot size to Close Ups, then will stop when Ella says goodbye.)

        3.  Tegan (that is no longer wearing a dressing gown) is   

        walking towards agreed meeting point

             - Would be ideal to film Tegan walking up to college on the pavement leading up to                

             college, or beyond the gates entering college.

             - This will be a long shot with just a straight on angle.

        4.  Ella is also walking in opposite direction to meeting point

        - Will also be ideal to film in the same locations as shot 3

              - Will also be a long shot at a possible high angle

  

( Using a cross cutting effect we will film Ella and Tegan in separate shots carrying on from 3 and 4 to build up to shot 5 where the girls will meet at their destination that will realistically be the side of college. Will only film two more shots to complete this.)

        5. 

Final Idea for our Continuity Editing sequence

In conclusion to the spider diagram for our Idea’s for Continuity editing video sequence, we have decided to base the sequence on a '16 and pregnant' episode. We chose this category as we want to create a clip that is realistic yet humorous, as the other idea's we thought of are quite overused  in tasks like these and often use cheesy lines when trying to make your audience laugh, which sometimes just puts down the whole sequence.
Jo will be taking on the role of being behind the camera, while Tegan and Ella will be on the other side, staring as our characters. Tegan will be playing the pregnant teen whilst Ella will be the friend and who's boyfriend may be the possible father Tegan's the baby.

3.  The 180 degree rule

Above is a diagram which shows the 180 degree rule. 

It is a rule that is vital when filming a discussion between two people. the rule states that two characters in a scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. however if this rule is not followed and is broken, for example filming on the opposite side, it disrupts the scene and confuses the audience as it will appear as if the two characters have swapped sides and in some cases can look as if one character is talking to themselves. Therefore we shall stick to this technique when filming, to prevent the audience from getting confused.

2. shot/reverse shot

Here is an example of a shot/reverse shot. these shots are commonly repeated several times.

Continuity editing

1. Match on Action

A match on action is a cut which splits two different views of the same action at the exact same moment in movement, to make it cleverly look like the shot is continuing from a different point of view. It is one of the most common transitions in continuity editing.

Media Studies Foundation Portfolio

Preliminary Exercise in Continuity Editing

Your Task: THIS TASK CONTRIBUTES TO YOUR COURSEWORK GRADE: COURSEWORK REPRESENTS 50% OF THE AS LEVEL The specification states that this must be: ‘ A continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue.’ The sequence must last no longer than one minute. This task should demonstrate: Match on Action Shot/Reverse Shot The 180 degree Rule All filming and editing must take place on Haywards Heath College campus. You will record your learning and processes on a group blog, which you will continue into the Main Task (the opening of thriller film).

Here we are, without Tegan :'(