Preliminary Task

The brief of our preliminary task involves filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character. With whom he/she then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue.

This task is being used to help us develop our understanding of camera shots and angles, sound and editing and to show that we know how to use all the different aspects of media to create believable scene. 

Our film should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule:

MATCH ON ACTION is an editing technique that helps to show continuity in a scene, it makes the scene flow and look natural, it portrays a continuous sense of the same action, rather than matching two different things.

SHOT/REVERSE SHOT is used in conversations or characters looking at each other, reverse shots are typically used with an over the shoulder shot to show the position of the characters in relation to each other,  this links with the 180 degree rule as it helps show continuity but also doesn't distort the audiences sense of location of the characters in the shot.

180 DEGREE RULE says that characters in a scene should have the same left/right relationship with each other with filming only taking place within the 180 degree angle, this allows the audience to have a greater sense of location and helping to show the position of the characters. e.g. whether or not they are sat next to or opposite each other, implying their relationship to each other.

A website that I found helpful to further my understanding of these concepts was
http://www.slideshare.net/joe940/match-on-action-180-rule-shot-reverse-shot as it explained each concept in detail, as well as showing examples. It will also be a useful website throughout the preliminary task as it goes through each part of the task and shows you how to complete each of the concepts, as well as helping with editing which will come after the film has been shot.