Continuation Sequence Analyis

Continuation Sequence Analyis

Our first shooting task was to film a short sequence focusing on continuity involving some kind of 'accident'. The narrative of our scene was a person running away from another and 'accidentally' running into a wall and falling over.  

What worked?:

• Our match-on-action shot from running into a room to the person in the room still running worked quite well in terms of continuity
• We used a decent range of shot types and distances with camera movement, displaying a little creativity and some understanding of perspective (instead of simply having a static camera)
• The first shot, a CU on the feet of the chaser and victim takes us straight into the action
• Little is revealed of the chasing character, creating a sense of enigma, using some things we've learnt. She is seen only in the first and last shot, in which largely only her black boots are seen

Criticisms? What would we add/do differently?:

• The slow motion shot looked out of place and didn't make much sense. It went from chaotic to not moving and the framing went up from the feet in the first shot then back down to the character's feet and up in the next shot
• The set was confusing and made the 3rd and 4th shots of the sequence not make sense. It would have needed a wider 3rd shot to show the symmetry of the locker room, because when the camera breaks the 180 degree rule to shoot the character hitting the floor it looks like his falling direction has drastically changed and he is falling into the wall that he was falling away from in the previous shot
• Some of our framing could do with improvement; the subjects in the first shot should start with more distance from the camera, and the final shot of the boots and body should be framed tighter and centraliset the subjects more