Editing video: Continuity task

1) Discuss what your preliminary exercise will involve – make notes on your blogpost of location, sequence of events, casting etc.

Plan: Conversation about how males should not be sagging their pants because it is unappealling to look at.

Location - D-block room

Sequence of events: Both girls walk in from the bottom of d block stairs, they go into the classroom and sit down. They have a funny conversation about the atrociousness of boys sagging their pants and rambling on about it. 

2) Write a short script for the preliminary exercise. Remember, scripts outline movement and shots as well as dialogue. The BBC Writer's Room is a brilliant resource for tips and examples of TV scriptwriting. Here's a genuine TV script example from Luther to check you are formatting your script correctly.

1     INT. FRONT DOOR OF THE  BUILDING

Girls opening the FRONT DOOR.

2     INT. WIDE SHOT OF BUILDING STAIRS

Girls walking up the STAIRS.

3     INT. TOP OF THE STAIRS

Both girls open the classroom door.

4     INT. CLASSROOM

Both girls sit down.

5     INT. IN CLASSROOM

Hadiya is smiling due to something funny that happened recently

HADIYA

Girl, guess what happened.

6     INT. IN CLASSROOM

SUMEYRA 

What happened?

7     INT. IN CLASSROOM

HADIYA

I was walking to my English  class and as I was walking there I saw a boy and his trousers were all the way down to his knees 

8     INT. IN CLASSROOM

SUMEYRA 

Oh my gosh  

9. INT. IN CLASSROOM

HADIYA

There is absolutely no way people can find that attractive.

10. INT. IN CLASSROOM

SUMEYRA 

For real.

11. INT. Outside classroom

The person the girls are talking about walks in.

Both girls start to laugh. 

Mariam

            Breaking news we are here today to discuss            the widespread disease that has devastated our country the absolute visual pollution as Road men are sagging their pants has been a monstrous problem that is growing uncontrollably cheeks are out bums are exposed and the cracks of young boys that shouldn't ever see the light of day are being set free to tackle this real life Horror Story a fine has been set in place so we can safely walk around the streets without the fear of seeing saggy bum bums terrorising the streets.

3) Write a shot list of every possible shot (and a few extra) you will need for this preliminary exercise. An example shot list is here.

Shot list: 

Shot No.	Shot	Filmed?
1	Establishing shot	Yes
2	Medium long shot	Yes
3	Very long shot	Yes
4	Medium Long shot	Yes
5	Tracking shot	Yes
6	OTS/ Medium Long shot	Yes
7	OTS/ Medium Long shot	Yes
8	OTS/ Medium Long shot	Yes
9	OTS/ Medium Long shot	Yes
10	OTS/ Medium Long shot	Yes
11	OTS/ Medium Long shot	Yes
12	Tracking shot	Yes
13	Medium Close up	Yes