OCR Media Studies Preliminary Editing Task

1. Preliminary Exercise
To demonstrate knowledge of editing
techniques

2. What does OCR want?
• Preliminary exercise: Continuity task 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. This task should demonstrate match
on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-
degree rule.

3. What does OCR want?
• Specific Evaluation Question
• ‘Looking back at your preliminary task, what
do you feel you have learnt in the progression
from it to the full product? ‘
• NOT WORTH AN INDIVIDUAL MARK
• Needs to be on your blog
• Needs not to be perfect (you will have this
week to do it!)

4. What does OCR want - terms
• Continuity - a system of cutting used to
suggest a progression of events in real time
and space (no flashbacks, fade out dissolves
etc JUST CUTS)
• Match on Action (Action Match) – where a
shot of a character starting an action and the
completing the action in the next shot

5. What does OCR want?
• Shot/Reverse shot – this is an editing pattern
that cut to the view in the opposite direction
(used most often for dialogue)

6. What does OCR want?
• The 180 degree rule

7. What does Miss Hill want?
• Shot Variety – size and angles
• Good Framing of shots
• Experiment with lighting?
• Make us laugh!
• Music
• Show that you have thought about mise en
scene
• Everyone must have an appearance on screen
• Random objects from the bag!

8. Camera tricks you need to know
• Manual Focus
• Low Lux
• Exposure
• Manual White Balance
• ‘Steadishot’

9. Plan for the Week
• Lesson One – create and storyboard your idea.
Find locations and maybe start filming
• Lesson Two – FILMING EVERYTHING
• Lesson Three – Editing using iMovie (yes you
have to use this, not Final Cut Pro X)