Continuity Piece - The Decoy

Callum, Dan, Jonathon and myself came together as a group to create this continuity edited film which will called 'Decoy'. Despite only being a short film, the story focuses on the main character (Jon) who gets 'stitched' up my his friends who plant him will Class A drugs. The moral of the film is not to trust anyone, only those who you're sure can be trusted. Despite only being a much smaller project compared to our final idea, it helped us to understand various things that we needed know for our final opening of a thriller film. Through filming and editing this piece, we understood new things such as, operating the camera and it's equipment (Tripod). 'The Decoy' allowed us to use various shots of the main characters to show their views, feelings and emotions. Because this was only our continuity piece, it consisted of a few small errors that we would have picked up on in the final film. But we managed to take these problems on board and used them to learn from our mistakes when creating the final piece. Some examples of mistakes we made in the film are: not using the music to it's full potential (i.e. not using it to have an effect on the audience like we did in our opening to a thriller piece) and certain shots where wind and other noises can be heard in the background.