evaluation - preliminary task by Stephen Pittuck

For our preliminary task we did a simple scene consisting of a conversation and quite a lot of walking. We used many shots in our scene first of which is the establishing shot and we had a few different variations of it where I’m walking through the camera then when I’m walking through the building and also when Dom is tapping on the table.

We then had our match on action shot when I started to open the door from the outside and then we did a quick cut to me walking through the door on the other side. We also used a match on action shot were I started to grab a chair and then we cut to me moving the chair to sit with Dom for the conversation shot. Our conversation shot also had a lot of reaction shots and close up’s as well as zooms for an intense scene. Close up’s were also used in the match on action shot.

The 180º rule is a very important concept in video and film production. It refers to an imaginary line that cuts through the middle of the scene, from side to side with respect to the camera.
Crossing the line changes the viewer’s perspective in such a way that it may cause disorientation and confusion. For this reason, crossing the line is usually something to be avoided. This is used to continually keep with the idea of continuity editing.

Continuity editing is were the majority of film sequences are edited so that time seems to flow, uninterrupted, from shot to shot. This is to make sure that everything fits together perfectly and sop that nothing seems out of place or it looks like sloppy editing.