Experimenting With Continuity Editing Techniques

For this task, the class was split into pairs or threes. Our task was to experiment with continuity editing. We decided to do continuity editing on me walking through the door and coming out somewhere else. The aim was to use different types of camera shots and editing techniques to make this clip flow smoothly with continuity editing.

The first shot we did was a long shot of myself, walking towards the camera. This was to get a sense of the setting and where I was walking and then then led to a mid shot (from shoulders above) to shows I am getting closer to the camera.

The next shot we decided to do was a close up going into a long shot of the back of me, going towards the door. This was to get an idea of where I am going. Then from the close up, long shot, it went to a point of view shot of me opening the door and it goes into a extreme close up of my hand in of opening the door.

From then, we changed location to make it look like that was where we were going. By doing this, we had to find a door that opened the same way as the one we used in the previous shot. This was a close up of my face going into a long shot going into a medium shot.

My group made sure that we stuck with the 180 degree rule. We decided to film on the left side of me and the right side of the back of me so it the editing and the video flows properly and do not break the 180 degree rule.

We then decided to then reverse the video for effects to show the shots in a different unique way.

We chose this type of music because it seemed bubbly and funny and went well with the video because it gives a good funny feeling to the video.