This document outlines key filmmaking principles such as match on action, shot/reverse shot, and the 1800 rule. It discusses how these continuity rules are typically followed but can also be purposefully broken, as seen in Stanley Kubrick's work. It also provides guidelines for a preliminary filmmaking task, instructing students to film a character opening a door, crossing a room, and engaging in a short dialogue with another character.

1. THE RULES OF SHOOTING
To identify and understand the key principles of shooting film.
To begin using blogs to record the classroom learning.
STARTER
• These are the guidelines from OCR about your preliminary task
and main task for video coursework. What stands out?

2. The preliminary task
• Although the quality of your preliminary task does
not affect your coursework grade, you must include
a preliminary task in order to be awarded a grade
for AS Media.
• You may work in groups of up to 4 people on both
the preliminary and main task.

3. Match on action
• Match on action means that when something
happens in the scene then there is a cut, the same
piece of action must continue into the next shot.

4. Match on action in Friends

5. An early example of match on action

6. Shot/reverse shot
• Shot reverse shot is a film technique where one
character is shown looking at another character and
then the other character is shown looking back at
the first character.
• Since the characters are shown facing opposite
directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking
at each other.

7. Shot/reverse shot in Star Wars

8. The 180⁰ rule

9. The 180⁰ rule explained

10. Stanley Kubrick often broke the continuity rules in order to create a
sense of unease or discomfort amongst his audience. Watch this scene
from ‘The Shinning’ and try to identify the 180⁰ rule being broken.

11. Preliminary task
• Film and edit 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.

12. An example – WWW? EBI?