1.In the video, an accident occurred when two characters (played by Harvey and I) were playing football on the school field. The character (played by me) was trying to catch the high ball that Harvey's character kicked, as it went over his head hence having to run back. Which in turn lead to my character tripping over Zain's character, who was sitting down on the sideline
2. We tried to create "narrative flow" through the use of match on action, which can be seen from shot 1 to 2 as the ball that was kicked was in roughly the same position therefore making it seem continuous. We also successfully used the eyeline match in shot 4 as we can see the character looking in the general direction of the ball, towards the sky, which made it more realistic and natural.
3. Despite our efforts, we were unable to achieve full continuity due to the camera being late to cut off the clip. For example in shot 2 we see Harvey's character kicking the ball as well as the full follow through, however the clip was left on for too long as we carried on seeing him take an additional step which slowed down the pace of the video. If we had cut the shot half a second after he kicked the ball, then i think that would've been an improvement. Additionally, we tried match on action again from shot 4 to 5 but was unable to do so successfully as we had mistimed it, therefore making it seem as though we had moved back in time. If we had shot 5 starting with the fall of my character instead of still seeing him running back, then we would've been able to achieve continuity with more success.
4. In hindsight, in order to improve the narrative flow of the video, i think that it would've been better to have Zain's character to be introduced in the first establishing shot by having a wider shot, including him in the frame, as opposed to having him being introduced later in the story in shot 4.
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