The document provides instructions for a preliminary editing exercise involving filming a character opening a door, crossing a room, sitting in a chair, and exchanging dialogue with another character. This is meant to demonstrate continuity, match on action, shot/reverse shot editing, and following the 180-degree rule. Students are asked to write a blog post reflecting on what they learned from this preliminary task and applying it to their full film project. The document also defines important editing terms and lists camera techniques students need to know, as well as a week-long plan for completing the exercise and full film project.

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)