Preliminary Exercise

This is my final edit of my preliminary exercise. Personally I think for a first go at filming and editing, my group did pretty well. There is one issue that we can learn from this exercise. When filming we need to ensure we have pressed record a few seconds before we start filming and a few seconds after were finished filming the shot. This will make the editing process a lot easier, as I found the sound was to abrupt. However we decided to film many different angles of the shot we needed to ensure we had more than enough footage for the editing process, therefore I would do this again. Also I think we did pretty well at filming shot reverse shot as we stuck to the 180 degree rule, making the conversation between me and Sky look like we’re talking together.  Another thing I think went well was how the video flowed considering we got interrupted quite a few times while filming, which meant it was quite had to remember where we filmed our previous shot. Therefore in the video you can see when I’m walking down the corridor and the angle changes, I move over to the left a bit. Overall I think our preliminary exercise went well.

Continuity

The definition of continuity is to be continuous. For example if you were holding a blue cup in one scene then cut to another and your holding a red cup, this would be a continuity error.

This video from youtube shows how bad a scene looks when there are continuity errors.

180 Degree rule

The 180 degree rule is used in film making. It's a rule that means two characters should always have the same left and right relationship to each other. When the camera crosses the 180 degree mark it's often called 'crossing the line'.

Shot/reverse shot

A shot/reverse shot is a technique used in conversations or people looking at each other/objects. Shot/reverse shot is showing what a character is looking at therefore the first shot would be an over the shoulder shot or point of view shot which would be followed by a reverse shot of the character looking at the object or another character looking back at them. 

Match on action

Match on action consists of two or more shots connecting together in which a character finishes off the same action that was in the previous shot. For example a character could walk up to the door then in the next shot the camera is on the character from a different angle opening the door.

AS Preliminary exercise

Produce a continuity exercise which involves a character opening a door,crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom they exchange a couple of lines of dialogue. The task should demonstrate;

• Match on action
• Shot/reverse shot
• 180 degree rule