Continuity Task Evaluation

An Accident

1. Explain the story of your video 

Our story features two people colliding in a corridor after turning a corner without looking where they are going. Our first character (portrayed by Abbie) is reading notes in her folder, and our second character (portrayed by Ollie) is looking at his phone. After bumping into each other, Ollie drops his phone and it breaks. He then blames Abbie for the accident.

2. How did you attempt to create 'narrative flow' (continuity)?

Before shooting we mapped out our story as a storyboard. This helped us stay within the frame limit as well as helping us understand how each shot needed to flow to the next.We tried to create good narrative flow by giving both characters a motive for colliding (not looking where they were going). This made the story more believable for the audience. We also tried to include an element of movement in each shot so there were no dramatic jumps between cuts. 

3. Did you achieve full continuity? If not, why not? 

We achieved a very good sense of continuity by using a good establishing shot, a good master shot and clearly showing the audience exactly what events were taking place and in what order. The only place where continuity was questioned was the direction in which Abbie was travelling at the beginning. 

4. What would you do differently to improve the continuity of your video and tell your story more effectively?

In hindsight, we would have made the lighting more controlled and directed our actors to be more exaggerated in their reactions. Also, in order to make Abbie's direction of travel more apparent, we could have shifted the camera positioning slightly to the left, so she would have clearly been shown as walking left-to-right.