Continuinty peice AS level

Our Continuity peice for media, in my opinion did not turn out as well as we thought, as we did not have the coreect music so we had to use the music we could find, which in my opinion does not suit the plot at all.

-Cast:
Darryle Hunt
Anthony Hall
Josh Fletcher
-Camera:
Ben Hilton

The plot of this continuity task perhaps needed to be explained more through the video, as I think it dod not reveal enough of the story. The plot involves two refugees running from a zombie infested city, being the only survivors seeking refuge in an abandoned building. The ending shot shows a zombie's hand slam onto the window of the room they are hiding in, showing that they have been discovered by those they were hiding from.

We were very limited on time and props in this peice, but this was due to poor planning as we could not decide on an idea for our peice which wasted too much time. In the end the peice trned out ok, but I beleive it could be vastly improved if we had planned it more thoroughly and chosen appropriate music for the video.

for props we used, a replica rifle, a replica pistol and one camoflage jacket, if we had planned the peice more effectively, we could have got together more props in order to improve the Mise-en-scene and add to the storyline of this peice. the props we did have however were good, and I thought they made it look like the characters had been scavenging for equipmen they could use.

We used a few different camera angles in this clip, but ultimately not enough. the opening shot is a tracking shot of the two characters opening a door and running down a corridor to seek a hiding place from their pursuers. This shot is effective becuase it shows movement and you can see exactly where the two characters are running to. The camera shot of them inside the room is goodbecuase it shows both characters talking to each other, and you can see them fully in the shot and all their actions and emotions are clear. The final shot is in my opinion the best in the peice, it is a moving shot from the back of the room which moves up to the window, this shot adds a feeling of being in the scene with the characters, the only issue with it is that the camera is quite shaky, making it seem ameture.

The sound in the continuity peice is not as effective as it could be, for example, the music in the peice does not suit the mood of the scene at all, and needs to be changed dramatically. We should have used a peice of music that bilds suspense and adds the feeling of a chase, and tension in order to attract the audience and have them on the egde of their seat. Also, the dialogue scene is not very effective becuase the characters voices are too qiuet and unclear to hear them enough, making this scene ineffective becuase the audience cannot hear what the characters are saying to each other well enough.

Another problem with our continuity peice, is that it is too similar to what most groups would do for this task, we should not have done a typical chase scene, and instead chose something different that other groups would not have thought of.

Overall I am dissapointed with our continuity peice, but it should help us to learn from this experience and make our thriller much better than this, with more planning and different storylines.