Continuity Task (BLK)

The story we were meant to portray in our accident video was a murder scene which had taken place in a lift. Flo, the first shown female actor, walks into a lift with the second female actor, me, already standing inside. As we see the lift go down on the digital display, the doors open to reveal, now dead, me  killed by Flo. We attempted to show full continuity by using a pan shot in the last shot which carried the viewer smoothly across the action. However we did not achieve a good narrative flow or full continuity. For example, in shot 1 Flo walks into the lift, which is not matched on action in shot 2 as she is then outside the lift again walking in. This needs to be edited to ensure the movement of Flo follows through into the second shot. From shot 2 to shot 3 the camera went from a wide shot to a close-up; this change in shots is too extreme and shows no special awareness or narrative flow. Also, in shot 3 it is not clear to the audience whose perspective the shot is from, making the storyline more confusing. Shot 3 doesn’t show where this digital display is and it is not clear it is even part of the lift. We could have altered this shot by using a zoom from a wide shot of the lift to a close-up of the digital display above it which would show the audience where exactly it was. I think we need to really think about the order in which we choose to shoot particular types of shots. There should be a gradual change from wide shot to extreme close-up shown through a number of shots to keep full continuity.