Preliminary Task

Preliminary Task

The task:

For our preliminary task we have to do a task that involves filming and editing and for this task we have follow the concept of a character opening a door, crossing the room and sitting down on a chair opposite another character, which he/she then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue.

For this task we have to demonstrate:

Match on action shot: Match on action (or cutting on action) is an editing technique for continuity editing in which one shot cuts to another shot portraying the action of the subject in the first shot. This is so that it creates a impression of a sense of continuity- The editor creates a "visual bridge" which draws the viewer's attention away from slight cutting or the continuity issues. It portrays a continuous sense of the same action rather than matching two separate things.   

Shot/Reverse shot: Shot/Reverse shot is a continuity editing technique used in conversations or simply characters looking at each other or object. A shot showing what the character is supposedly looking at (either a point of view or over the shoulder shot) is followed by a reverse angle shot of the character themselves looking at, or of the other character looking back at them, for example:

The 180 degree: The 180 degree rule is filming guideline that participants in a scene that should have the same left-right relationship to each other, with filming only taking place within the 180 degree angle in whic this is maintained in a conversation. This allows the audience to haev a greater sense of the location in the scene and what is going on between the charaters.

This diagram shows the axis between two characters and the 180 degree arc on which cameras may be positioned (green). when cutting from for the green arc to the red arc. 

In a dialogue scene between two characters, Kelly (blue shirt, frame right) and Josh (orange shirt, frame left), the camera can be place anywhere on the green 180 degree arc (as you can see on the diagram) and the relationship between the characters will be consistent from the shot to shot, even when one of the characters is not on screen. Shifting to the other side of the characters on a cute, so that Kelly is on the left side and Josh is on the right, may disorient the audience.