Evaluation

During the course of working on our preliminary task I have learned and developed several skills surrounding continuity editing.Continuity editing is the predominant style of editing in film and television, making shots seem as if they run smoothly with no breaks or obvious gaps - it should be flawless in order to create the effect that it intends. The idea of continuity editing is to smooth over discontinuity of the editing process and provide a logical coherence between shots. The key rules of continuity editing include "Match on Action" , meaning that the subject is shown in the same stage of its movement as was left from cutting from the first shot.
Here is an example of a match on action shot in our clip:

Here you can see that the movement between his fist moving into the air and it being in the air is continual in our shot.
I also learned many skills about filming organisation. At the start of the course and our preliminary task I was extremely unorganised and absent for a few lessons meaning being left to catch up with the group. I soon caught up and got involved with filming, and I have now learnt that organisation and being present for all lessons is necessary. Also, our group learnt to be more organised with keeping things such as scripts safe, as ours went missing and meant that we had to spent far longer organising dialogue during filming than we intended.
After filming, we had to upload our footage from the DV camera to Premiere. We did this by plugging our camera into the computer and importing our footage into premiere.