Contingency Plan By Sophie Stead

When filming an opening sequence in a group many things could go wrong, so as a group we have come up with ideas to prevent any of these event occurring. An issue is that could happen is if someone of the cast dropping out or being unreliable, to ensure this doesn't happen we have chose people from our own group and people who we trust and we know wouldn't do this, but if it does we also have back up actors if this does happen to the group. If the crew keeps being late we will would tell them an earlier time so we get there at the same time but also we are making sure the place we film is somewhere everyone involved knows about but if they don't we can show them beforehand so that no one gets lost.

Our film is in a attic so we won’t have the issue of too many people in the background, but looking into the location not letting you film there, we have ensured that we have a backup place encase the first location we want to film at falls through. The Camera will be used a lot and could run out of battery but we will make sure it has charge the day before we film every time and not mess about with the camera otherwise will run out of battery quicker.

There are often many Continuity problems within any film, for example if your filming one day and an actor is wearing a green top but the next day and your filming the same scene but they are wearing a red shirt thing will look very silly. To ensure this doesn't happen we will have specific filming clothes for the opening sequence that we wear every time. Continuity errors can ruin the illusion of realism and affect suspension of disbelief.

Examples of continuity errors in films:

Wizard of Oz:  There is a scene where Dorothy and the Scarecrow are fighting the trees, the Scarecrow taunts the trees and gets hit with some apples. The very next shot, Dorothy is wearing black shoes instead of her Ruby slippers. Although a small continuity error it was still quite obvious, the error is easily explained and prevented. When making the film the actor would have worn comfortable shoes if her feet weren’t shown on camera. The Frame was larger than expected and someone must have forgotten to look at her shoes.  This is why you should always check the actors costumes to make sure they are correct and in the same position.

What film producers do to prevent errors?

·         Film all the shots for a particular scene together and all shots of consecutive scenes together

·         Actors remain in costume and in character

·         Stay in the same location, this will ensure the same weather.

·         Costume designers, production designers, prop masters, and make-up artists take instant photographs of actors and sets at the beginning and end of each day's shooting.

However on rare occasion continuity errors can be done deliberately, this is often for a comical affect.