2. PRELIMINARY TASK
Looking back on the preliminary task I learnt about the 180
degree rule and how important it is to follow it, so the
audience don’t get confused and disorientated, match on
action so you can show characters moving eg. Going
through a door with one shot outside the door and one shot
on the other side of the door with a fast cut to match the
action and finally I learnt about shot/reverse shot.
3. 180 DEGREE RULE
In our Preliminary task I think our group broke the 180
degree rule when the character is walking through the
door. I think the two different camera angles are at about a
200 degree angle. Although you could probably get away
with a bit over 180 degrees it is probably best to stay
within 180. This is what I learned about the 180 degree
rule through my preliminary task.
4. MATCH ON ACTION
In our preliminary task we used match on action to show the
character going through the door. We did this by filming the
same action twice and then editing the shots to make them
flow. This went well because these two shots flowed
smoothly into one another. They flowed well because of the
match that we were able to achieve because we made the
hand movements continuous and we managed to keep the
left step between the shots.
5. SHOT/REVERSE SHOT
To portray a back and forth conversation we used
shot/reverse shot. We did not completely the complete
shot/reverse shot effect because the first shot is different to
the third shot. So from this I learned that the first shot needs
to be the same as the third shot.
6. CLOCKS
The last thing that I learned from this opening sequence was
to be very careful when filming clocks because they can give
an unrealistic feel to time if they are filmed improperly. We
did this in our opening sequence when we filmed the shot to
the left the clock read quarter to 10 but a couple of shots
later it read 5 minutes to 10.
