Preliminary task

Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing the room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple lines of dialogue.

This task should demonstrate match on action which is a shot used to maintain continuity along with the 180 degree rule, which allows space to be cut from the movie but doesn't appear to, to the audience, e.g a car leaving the screen on the left and reappearing on the right.A shot/reverse shot e.g when 2 characters are talking, a shot is taken from 2 different angles/sides or the conversation and 180-degree rule which is all of the shots are taken from one side of the axis of action . We also used a few jump cuts especially between our match on action where the camera jumped slightly, next time in filming we will try to eliminate this in order for the film to flow more easily.

We developed a short storyline, including the 3 needed shots;match on action, shot/reverse/shot and 180 degree rule,created a storyboard from this, listing the shots we planned to use along side this and wrote the script deciding a brief screenplay, cast the actors from our group as they were very suitable for the roles they played, charged and set up a hand held camera without tripod and filmed using our prelim.

After this we uploaded the film onto the computer onto imovie and cut and edited our films separately, after this we added sounds over the top to entice movement, anchor the location and enhance the emotion felt, we also added some transitions to help with the time frame, finally we added our title sequence at the beginning of the prelim.

Overall our prelim task was successful easily slipping in the criteria of shots needed, although next time we would edit more clearly, make more use of the lighting for example by putting the lights on, and have more coherent speech, enabling the film to flow more easily.