Continuity Errors - Line of Action video ("Fed Wars")

Continuity Errors within our 180 Degree Rule video

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Throughout most of our ‘Fed-Wars’ video it was fairly continuous however we did encounter a few troubles. This was partially down to the fact that we had planned to film throughout just one day however this ended up having to be two days due to the fire alarm going off in school and this interrupted our filming and on that day we did not manage to finish filming therefore the main character (Myself, the burglar) did not have the same shirt on. We also encountered a larger problem which was that we lost a student from our group due to leaving College therefore we had to use someone else therefore our finale was rushed.

Around 20 seconds there was a large jump between the meeting of the two characters to the exchanging of the parcel, this is due to a lack of length on the exchanging of the parcel, however it is not that noticeable and just about works. Our use of subtitles here is simply because the wind was too loud in our film and the voices could not be heard clearly therefore we substituted the speech for subtitles instead.

Another continuity error can be spotted at 32 seconds where we had left our props in view of the camera, bit of a spoiler to say the least however next time I will scan the area we are going to film for errors alike this one, preventing it from happening again.

The biggest error in our video was when I was entering the main entrance to the college; with thanks to editing we just about corrected this mistake, as I had been carrying the box in different hands from the shot from outside when I entered to when it switches to the inside shot. This is still a slight continuity error because the bin is now on the wrong side, this is because we switched the video around and ‘flopped’ (Final Cut effect for flipped) it to make the box on the correct side to conform to the shot from inside.

Not only once I have entered the college can you see me wearing a slightly different t-shirt but also at 1 minute 17 seconds you can see people hanging around in the corridor when a few seconds back there was no-one, however we were stuck for time so did not get the chance to re-record despite acknowledging the error.

The Fade to Black effect was used at 1 minute 44 seconds so that the transition between the two separate shots would be more sleek because the camera was positioned in two slightly different places when filming.