AS Continuity Piece

AS Media Continuity Piece - Russian Roulette from Jake Hipwell on Vimeo.

Cast- Ben Hume
- Jake Hipwell
- Sam Askey
-Alex Hyden
Crew
- Michael Gwynne
- Ben Rodger

This was our first ever film, and was perfect opportunity to begin experimenting with all the different aspects of cinematography, although the overall product is not excellent, I believe as a group we improved our skills greatly seeing as we deliberated on almost every factor involved with in the piece, from outfits to lighting.
   We were incredibly limited as to how, what and where we would shoot the film. Thankfully, we were able to take advantage of the schools drama studio, in which we agreed, for maximum impact on the audience to plunge the studio in to darkness and focus one singular spotlight up on the actors, I believed this to be one of the most successful and also detrimental determinant to improve the overall entertainment factor of the piece.
    I feel that as a group, we wanted to stray from the usual protagonist/antagonist rivalry and eliminate both roles, whilst instead having 4 relatively neutral developable characters, that if the feature were to carry on we could have expanded and created an in depth entertaining film.
    As mentioned earlier i believe we were very experimental with the filming with many different shots including 'point of view' and even an almost 360 degree tracking shot, which I believe to be ingeniously effective.
    To edit the piece we utilised Macintosh's 'IMovie' which was detailed enough to create this basic continuity piece. It also gave us an insight as to the basics of editing, and enabled us all to familiarise ourselves with the schools Macbooks.
    A continuity piece is defined as an uninterrupted connection or union, where shots continue from one another within a clip. Other aspects to take in to account whilst shooting for continuity are actor positions, costumes, props, lighting and camera position.
    The soundtrack in our clip derives from 'David Fincher's' 'Fight Cub (1999)'. We chose this as it seems to fit the emotion of the piece, and increases suspense and tension tenfold.
    I also learnt a lot about working in a team, and gained confidence to voice my opinions successfully, and give constructive criticism to the ideas i had less credence in. Hopefully our final thriller opening will  genuinely better than this.