Evaluation of edited sequence

Evaluation of Short Film

In our short edited sequence, we successfully used the following techniques, 180' degree rule, match on action, shot-reverse shot. We included these techniques in our short film. I think we personally did a good job of doing so. However we could of improved the graphic match as it looked a bit un-professional and seemed to be amateur.

We used the 180' degree rule effectively during our conversation in the film, as both characters stayed on the same side of the invisible line that the camera is not supposed to go over, the audience would not be disorientated as the camera was focused on each of the characters and did not move over to the other side, so i would personally say that we have done a good job of keeping the 180' degree rule intact.

The match on action in our film was good as both of our characters walk through doors and the scenes flow together as if there was no cut, this was done successfully as we edited the two scenes to flow through perfectly and do the continuity of our short film was good, i personally think we could of used different shot types for each character as we just used the same tracking shot.

The shot-reverse-shot was also done successfully in our film, as we kept switching between the characters as they were speaking. This is the technique and we have done it successfully in our short film, as the camera focuses on the characters as they speak. We used a over the shoulder shot for each time we speak to show the character that was speaking and show a bit of the character that is listening.

In our film we however did not put in parallel editing in our film, this technique shows two events happening at the same time, we did not edit or film scenes to be able to put this technique in place, this is something that we could place in the future in further projects. This could potentially effect our grade in this unit as we have not included a technique that was needed.

The graphic match in our short film, was also not done very well, as the shot was at a weird angle,a and the two objects that we needed to frame was also not fitted perfectly, so it made the graphic match seem unprofessional and to be of a low standard. I personally think we could of taken the objects in to frame perfectly, and then moved the camera backwards slowly to capture them in frame and make them dissolve into each other in a better manner.