PRELIMINARY TASK: Final Video

Below is my final video for my preliminary task, filmed by me and my partner Alex Saker using other people in it. We felt using other people would allow us to both put more input into the camera work, which is the main part of this task. Obviously, only one of my partner and I could have been in the video as then there would have been no one left to film, so we came to the conclusion we could have an equal input by both filming. The task was to film a video of someone walking in a room and exchanging a few lines of dialogue, using the 3 rules from the research below (match on action, shot/reverse shot and 180degree rule). As we both really wanted to focus on demonstrating these rules, we kept the video's storyline basic in order to focus efforts into the camera work.

PRELIMINARY TASK: Storyboard

Before shooting our preliminary task, my partner and I storyboarded the plan for the filming. This includes planning shot types, lengths, angles and sound. Planning will help when we come to shoot the preliminary task as we will have a vision in our mind and be aiming towards this.

RESEARCH: Match On Action

This is another film editing technique, where you sequence a series of different shot together to give the impression of one continuous take. The alignment of the objects that you're looking to cut from one shot to another is important. So for example, if a person walks through the door on the left, on the next shot of them walking through, they must be coming in on the right. If you did not do this it would look like the person has jumped and it would be clear that this is not the same take. This is all to do with continuity, and if you get this wrong it can look obvious and bad. Another thing you have to take into account might be for example the pace the object is moving, as it needs to keep consistent.

RESEARCH: Shot/Reverse Shot

Here is another commonly used filming technique, called shot reverse shot due the fact you alternate back and forth between 2 shots. This shot usually shows one person looking at another person as they are speaking, and then it reverses to show the person that just spoke seeing the other person speak. Ordinarily, the shot is recording from over the onlookers shoulder. There rule with this is, if you record over one persons right shoulder, you must do the same when recording from the other persons shoulder.

Shot reverse shot, also known as shot/countershot, I feel is a good technique to use because it creates the atmosphere as a viewer that you are in the conversation with the actors. Here is an image I made to demonstrate shot reverse shot: