Preliminary Task

The task was to create a short film involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. The task had to demonstrate:

• MATCH ON ACTION cut between two shots of the same action from different positions giving an impression of simultaneity.
• SHOT/REVERSE SHOT (REVERSE ANGLE) Two successive shots from equal and opposite angles, typically of two characters during a conversation.
• 180 DEGREE RULE States that the camera can be in any position as long as it remains on one side of the action. If not it becomes a reverse shot.