Continuity Task Evaluation

1) Explain the story of your video
In our video, the story takes place in along corridors. In the first shot you can see Rose rushing towards a set of stairs and running downstairs carrying some folders, it is suggesting she is late for something. In the next shot Riana and myself are talking, having a conversation walking along the another corridor on the lower floor. As we walk along deep in conversation, Rose and Riana collide so Rose falls, spilling her folders and papers on the floor. In the last shot Rose has gotten up and a single sheet of paper is seen descending to the ground.

2) How did you attempt to create 'narrative flow' (continuity)?
By thinking up our accident beforehand, we drew out our six shots (a storyboard) on paper, deciding which orders our scenes should be in. To try to create narrative flow, Riana and I positioned our feet as close as possible to the position they were in when we were walking so the continuity would be better.

3) Did you achieve full continuity? If not, why not?
I don't think we managed to create continuity, I think the main reason was because of the close up of shoes shot. In the previous shot of Riana and myself, we were walking forward towards the camera but then the camera switched to behind us whereas it could have been more in front. An improvement is to have done a closer shot on the shoes and make a tighter frame and trim down the close up.

4) In hindsight, what would you do differently to improve the narrative flow of your video and tell your story more effectively?
In summary, the variety of shots in addition to the angled made our story more engaging in, the master shot of the stairs and people walking left the audience feeling anticipation for the collision. We had good establishing shots for both sets, the stories seemed parallel because we utilised the technique of crosscutting. In future, to generate a better narrative flow, we should make the sound more consistent and as our last two shots were too similar we needed to produce one more shot to cut in for it to work.