On Thursday last week we completed our Preliminary task:
This was a continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. Demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.
Q. Technically, what is the 180 degree rule in the context of this task?
In film making, the 180-degree rule is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene. An imaginary line called the axis connects the characters, and by keeping the camera on one side of this axis for every shot in the scene, the first character is always frame right of the second character, who is then always frame left of the first.
Q. What is match on action?
Match on action is when you film something which connects to the character so you get and overall view of the scene without it being realistic. for example filming someone going through a door but filming it form both sides of the door so you aren't filing their back the entire time.
Q. What is shot/reverse shot?
This is when you flip different shots between two or more different characters.
Q. How did it go?
When filming, I think the whole process went very well. Despite getting moved out of our first room due to science rules we really had no problems at all. Having our friends and people we knew be in it meant I could really be honest with what I thought of the acting and the scene instead of just 'being polite'. The only problem with this was we did make each other laugh a lot which meant we did scenes over and over again, however I think this made it a lot more fun and meant we made changes to the scene thus improving the film.
Q. What would you change/do better if you had the chance to do the task again?
If I was to redo the entire thing one thing I would change would be the amount of dialogue in the film. I would add more to make it all seem a lot more realistic.
