Preliminary Task

In groups than no more of four.
Continuality 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 exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task must demonstrate:

• Match on action
• Shot/Reverse shot
• 180 degrees rule  

 

In our preliminary task we decided to agree on breaking the 180 degree rule. This was because we wanted to see the effects it would have when breaking it, so we could understand the relevance of the rule and also to potentially see if this effect would be useful in our opening sequence.

Although this didn't work well because it broke the seamless flow of the edits but was a useful exercise to learn. The 180 degree rule applies to the angle which the camera is shot, shot reverse shot require the 180 degree rule which involves using one side of the couple and filming on just that side. This prevents jump cuts, this can vaguely be seen at the end of the task when we would apply the 180 degree rule.