Preliminary Task

                                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4llop3kVtYY

One of our tasks was our preliminary exercise. In this we had to film and edit a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in an opposite chair from another character. Also the character had to exchange a few lines of dialogue.

In this task we demonstrated:

Match on action
this means that when something is happening in the scene and there is a cut, when the camera is back on the same action must be taking place, (opening and closing a door) this is a good example of continuity editing.

Shot/reverse shot
This is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character and the other character looks back, seems as they are facing different ways, the audience perceives them to be looking at each other.- in our preliminary task this is shown in the conversation over the table.

180-degree rule

This rule states that the camera must keep to one side of the characters, the imaginary line is drawn perpendicular to the cameras view point. - in ours we had a conversation over a table which clearly shows this rule.



I have found a good example of this in a video: