HW 3a - Continuity task evaluation (BLK)

The story is simple; a girl walks out of a lift and on her way out manages to bump into someone. She then makes her way down a corridor and as she is preoccupied with her phone she bumps into a closed door.
In order to create narrative flow we tried to film all of our shots from different angles to give the audience a sense of space but at the same time we had to ensure that there were no jump shots, so none of our shots jumped from a close up to a long shot, for example.
However, despite our best intentions the video was still full of continuity mistakes like:

• The board that the girl walks past in shot 4 is the very same one that she walks past in shot 5. This reveals how between the shots the subject obviously took several steps back.
• Also in shot 4 you  can see that one of the doors is open, however is shot 6 the door is closed.
• The speed of the walking also changes throughout the video.

Mistakes such as these could have been avoided if we had more time and also if we filmed the entirety of the video from 6 different camera positions and then just used software to edit it all together.
But if we still had the same rules by which we had to film (only using 6 shots and piecing them all together on the camera) then i would still make several changes:

•  We could have placed shot 5 in between shots 3 and 4 in order to add more variations.
• Shot 4 could have also been filmed a bit more over-the-shoulder in order to establish that the girl is on her phone earlier on.
• perhaps to tell the story more effectively we could have replaced a shot by a completely different one after shot 6. This could have been a close up or a medium close up on the girl actually hitting herself on the door. This would have added more impact and made the audience feel more involved in the storyline.