Learning to Craft Scenes With Continuity

For the last few months, the Digital Leaders have been learning film techniques when making short scenes using iPads as cameras.

At first, we learned how to film different types of shots (close-up, medium, wide, over the shoulder, point of view, etc.) and practised them. Next, we learned how to upload our footage independently and how to edit it into a short scene.

Then a challenge was set: could we create a short scene, showing continuity, to make the audience feel suspense?  We worked out a simple storyboard to follow:

Next, we broke into small groups, filmed our footage and edited it together to make a scene.  Here are some of our results:

Next, we will be learning about jump cuts and using them to make scenes that feature a magic trick!