Preliminary Task

We had to do a preliminary task and included match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 rule. match on action is where a cut in film editing between either two different objects, two different spaces, or two different compositions in which an object in the two shots graphically match, often helping to establish a strong continuity of action and linking the two shots metaphorically. A shot/reverse shot is when a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character, and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other. we also used the 180 rule we had practice before by making sure that all of the filming was done on one side of the imaginary line. For the match on action we had someone walking towards a door and starts opening it and then coming out the other side of the door. this made the clip flow better and made it more interesting. This worked well as we made sure his hands were in the same place when opening the door and that everything in the background was the same from each angle. such as other people in clip where in the same postion. The clip was a nice pace and flowed well. There was a slight continuity error with sounds as the door squeaked. In our final video we would do match on action to make the clip more interesting but next time we will be more careful with sound. We did the 180 rule and shot/reverse shot through a conversation, this worked well because there was no confusion with where people were in the clip and who was talking to who. To make it even clearer that the two people were talking to each other in the shot we started with an over the shoulder shot so you can see both character facing each other, we then did shot/reverse shot to see each person talking through the clip. Something else we would improve on for our final video would be better control over the camera and making sure we used the tripod for all shots. after we had recorded all the shots we edited it so that there was good continuity.