During filming and editing our final project we knew it was very important that we observed the conventions of continuity, and the language of film and editing. We did this in a number of ways. First of all we tried to stick to certain rules.
Example one:
Shot reverse shot:
Shot reverse shot is a film technique, in terms of editing it’s when the shots are cut so that each character is shown on screen alternatively. Whilst one is talking the other is looking back at her/him. This is done so the viewer assumes they are looking at each other. When making our rough draft we used this technique but decided against it in the final piece.
(An example of shot reverse shot is shown below)
Shot reverse shot is a film technique, in terms of editing it’s when the shots are cut so that each character is shown on screen alternatively. Whilst one is talking the other is looking back at her/him. This is done so the viewer assumes they are looking at each other. When making our rough draft we used this technique but decided against it in the final piece.
(An example of shot reverse shot is shown below)
Example two:
180 degree line:
The 180°
line is a technique that many film makers use. It’s an imaginary line that is
used usually drawn between two characters. The aim of the 180° line rule is
that the camera must stay on that one side of the line. The reason this is done
is that if the camera moved to the other side of the line to audience may get
confused as it would no longer look like both speakers are talking to each
other and could cause disorientation.
The
chosen genre of our film is a romantic drama; our film full fills the nature of
our chosen genre as we used a very typical storyline. In a romantic comedy
there always seems to be the same trends or story lines, there’s usually a
couple or a number of couples who are facing a number of obstacles stopping
them from being together. More often than not there’s usually a ‘split up’ and
a ‘get back together’ some way through the film, its very likely that there a
happy ending in a romantic drama. Which is exactly what our film ‘The Perfect
Match’ does, a young and couple split up and both sign up to a online dating
site not knowing the other has done the same, in the end it turns out the both
find their perfect match, arrange to meet and it turns out they have found each
other, supporting the typical ‘fate brings them back together’ theory.
We
got a lot of inspiration for our film from the internet. Particularly the film ‘the
Perfect Man’ this film gave us the idea to name our film what we did, it also
gave us a few ideas for certain scenes, where the girl rings her friends in the
perfect man. We watched the trailer for the perfect man and decided to use that
certain scene for our film where she also rings her friends.
In
terms of the Richard dyers theory of entertainment we decided that there was a
range of audience pleasure in our film. Firstly intensity, extremes of
emotions, highs and lows throughout the film. The couple end things being a low
but get re united in the end which becomes a high. Secondly transparency, the
emotions are very clear, you can easily tell what the characters are feeling,
we can tell when she is happy as she is smiling etc but we can also tell when
she is upset as she is crying and running out of lessons. And thirdly community
as we can see the couple doing things together in public places.
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