TASK 1:
Watch this sequence from Hitchcock's The Birds. It's an excellent example of continuity and uses the techniques we've seen in class this week.

Overall there where 16 shots with in that 1 minute 30 video clip.
There where various number of different shots in the extract clip, and mostly all of these clips had very good continuity through out the extract footage.

1st Shot: Long shot / establishing shot
2nd Shot: Medium shot
3rd Shot: Match on action to shot 4
4th Shot: Medium shot
There is panning during shot 4 of the house
5th Shot: Medium shot down the hall way
6th Shot: Medium shot
7th Shot: Reaction Shot
8th Shot: Point of view shot
9th Shot: Medium Shot
10th Shot: Point of view shot
11th Shot: Close up
12th Shot: Point of view shot
13th Shot: Long, Medium to close up
14th Shot: Medium shot down the hallway
15th Shot: Long shot
16th Shot: Close up

1. What principles of continuity are used here? How successfully? Refer to specific shots / screen-grabs.




This shot is very important this is because this is an establishing shot and a long shot so this gives the audience an insight on where the scene is taking place.











This is the point where the lady opens the door to enter the house












Then this is the match on action where after the lady opens the door it cuts the shot so that that the perspective is inside the house and shows a form of continuity.

This is another very good piece of continuity in this clip as you can see she is looking down the corridor and our perspective is from behind her so we are looking at her back.



Then in the next shot we are in the corridor looking down the corridor and she is in front of us and she is looking down the corridor, this is excellent continuity.

These 2 shots on my left and right are her points of views and this is what she saw, and then the shot at the bottom is her reaction shot of what she saw and then she ran away. This shows