Filming Door Sequences

For the first task of the day we went out to film based on what we learnt from filming conversations during transition week, but instead we practised filming someone walking through doors. This is an important technique to learn because you have to think about the continuity of the cut when you get to editing the clip. As easy as I thought this task was going to be, it proved a lot harder when it came to editing the clips together. The actual filming of the sequence was really easy, as it just involves you filming the same event from two different angles: one behind the door and one on the other side. To edit the clips together however, we used new software called Final Cut Pro which I have never used before, which proved to be difficult as the controls are very different to that on iMovie. It's very difficult to shorten the clips so that they match up to each other once you place them into one sequence, as it is important that you show continuity.