Evaluation of Continuity

I have improved from my prior video, Numbers, as I have clearly adhered to the conventions of continuity - which was an issue before. I've met the criteria that I was set for the project by including: an action match shot, use of shot/reverse shot, and focused on maintaining the 180 degree rule. However, in terms of use I feel that the action match shot could have been more effective had it been used with the handing over of the 'Flash Drive'.

Similarly, in terms of effectiveness, the shot/reverse shot could have included more variation; I originally planned to add a long shot of the two characters talking, which would have been an issue given that I recorded the actors separately. However, I planned to crop the two shots together in order to make them appear as one solid shot, the issue was that on my second shooting the camera was slighty out of place and so the shots wouldn't have matched up.

I decided to go back and edit my video to improve it, based upon the issues I discovered:

Another issue that I identified was audio, the music seemed to be louder than the dialogue despite how I faded it. I decided to alter the volume of the music and the dialogue, even altering the fades for the music. As seen below, I also tidied up the audio files as I origniallly used 4 separate spaces for audio; pinpointing the fades and matching them up was then made easier by this.

Visually I felt as though the sequence worked, it felt realistic which contrasted to the use of meta comedy in order to make the video funnier - maybe even improving the effect of the use of the 'Flash Drive' as that is not what one looks like, it is instead a car and a torch for visual humour. Although I don't think the credits worked well; adding the credits at the end on a single slide seemed lazy or clumsy. Furthermore, the begining felt empty as it was a single shot of a corridor, so I decided to include the credits at the beginning. Given my new knowledge of the conventions of title sequences, I decided to also include some still images to break up the start - adding the credits in order on the images.

Improved Continuity Video