First Edit Of Continuity

This is the first edit of our continuity film using Serif Movie Plus which is a Microsoft programme which is available on our school computers.



The Strengths of our continuity film:

• I like how we kept good continuity throughout each shot.
• We included a variety of shots and camera angles which made our sequence more interesting.
• Our teacher said that she liked the 'High angle shot' through the window of myself walking outside. This was because it was different and interesting as all the other shots were of inside the school and this was the only one of outside.

What needs to be improved:

• The first few shots need to be cut slightly towards the end of them. This is because it focus one one thing for too long and are not really needed. If they are cut shorter it will have no impact to the full sequence. 
• When myself and Caitlin have our conversation towards the end, the shots need to be cut sooner, as i say "Thank you, I need to finish my homework" and then there is a gap when no one speaks, therefore, that shot needs to be cut slightly sooner so Caitlin's response comes in straight away.
• The shot of when I open the door needs to be cut slightly and made faster, this because it looks like the door opens in slow motion towards the end of the shot. When we were filming, we must have opened it and then slowly moved it resulting in the door slowing down.

These improvements can be made when we visit the college to use their media suite and facilities. We will also be using a software called Premiere at the college so it will be interesting to evaluate the differences in the two software's we used and see which one provides the best overall quality.



The editing software that we were using worked well and it was quite easy to upload our shots and edit them together. However, when we saved it as a Serif Movie Plus file I noticed that the overall quality was not that great, therefore, I then saved it as an MP4 file and the quality was much better. The film ran a lot more smoothly and wasn't freezing or jumping. The video that is shown above is the MP4 version of the film that I uploaded to YouTube.