Continuity Evaluation.

Evaluation on JOC: the movie

      JOC: the movie was my first continuity exercise so I am writing about how I feel the final product turns out including all of its flaws and things I thought went well as constructive criticism so I can look back and reflect on how to improve for future short movies.

       One shot that does seem slightly out of place is when Ollie goes to walk into the room we do a match-on-action shot of his hand pushing and opening the door and there seems to be a slight jump in the shot from where his hand was to where his hand is so it looks slightly out of place but it's not really noticeable until it is pointed out.

  

The medium shot as Ollie goes to walk into the room.

The match-on-action shot of the hand going to open the door

The two screen shots above show a tiny jump between the two but whilst the film is playing this hard to spot but once spotted is easily noticeable. During editing we could have cut the shots to look better but at the time before rendering the video was jumpy and we thought it would be fine after rending so this did not go according to plan. Another shot which can be easily noticed without even pointing it out as the duration of it is longer is when Ollie runs out of the room he forgets that the camera is there and looks at the camera as he runs out of the room and breaks the 4th wall unfortunately this was not Ollie's fault but again this did not go to plan and could have been re done when filming.

Ollie looking at the camera as he runs out of the room.

However although there might have been the odd couple of shots that went wrong there was a few that went really well and look good and professional in the finish. When me and Ollie are talking to each other and I get the scissors out on the cut to the over-the-shoulder shot you can still see the scissor in the shot which goes smoothly and looks good in the shot as it shows time has not jumped.

This shows me with the scissors in my hand before the cut.

This shows shows a brief glimpse of the scissors under my chin.

Another shot that runs smoothly after the cut is when Ollie turns to run away it almost seems as a fluent motion in the way it was cut and looks very good and effective after the cut. It shows Ollie turning in the over-the-shoulder shot but then cuts to the re-establishing shot and sees Ollie turn the full way and start to run.

The over-the shoulder-shot showing Ollie turning around

The establishing shot showing Ollie fully turned and starting to run





Overall I think for my first continuity exercise my group managed to do well, maintaining continuity through-out with some errors but not many and most of the errors are not noticeable at first glance. If I were to do this project again I would pay more attention whilst editing and make sure the shots are cut closer together to make it more fluent and and smooth during the cut process to make it look better. There were a couple of unexpected things happen during the filming and editing process but they are not noticeable at first glance however more attention should be paid to the editing process whilst doing it. But I think for a first attempt it went well but like anything there is still room for improvement and I hope my group can improve as much as possible.