demonstrating the match on action technique

1. Match on Action

2. Shot 1
• Medium Shot, Waist Up
• Track The actor down the
corridor
• No shot of the face yet...

3. Shot 2
• Crabbing shot to track character.
he stops at the door and
hesitates reaching for the
handle.
• sideways view
• Neutral angle medium shot
• Neck to waist is on show

4. Shot 3
• Character 1 comes to stop in
front of door
• Arc Shot & close up
• 360 degree view around
characters face/head

5. Shot 4
• Side shot of character 1
• Long shot shows whole of body
• Character reaches for handle

6. shot 5
• High angled Over the shoulder
shot
• focus is on character 1 reaching
for the door handle.
• (match on action used)

7. Shot 6
• Over Character 2's shoulder Shot
• Character 1 walks through door
and across the room towards the
chair.

8. Shot 7
• Over shoulder shot (character 1)
• showing how he pulls out the
chair to sit down.
• (dialogue spoken here)

9. Shot 8
• Over the shoulder shot where
character 2 watches character 1
sit down.
• (dialogue said here)

10. shot 9
• over the shoulder shot
(character 1)
• (dialogue spoken here)

11. Shot 10
• Character one gets angry, and
stands from the chair (dialogue
will be said)

12. Shot 11
• Character one storms off
towards the door
• This is a long shot so we are able
to see his whole body.

13. Shot 12
• Character one reaches for the
door handle and opens and
walks through the door.

14. Shot 13
• Character 1 walks down the
corridor in a rage. this will be a
medium angled shot to start
with and the audience will watch
him walk off into the distance -
(gradually more and more of his
body is revealed In the shot).

18. Image Attributions
• The Long Hallway (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tymesynk/2136587888/) by tymesynk License: Attribution, Non Commercial
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/)
• The Long Hallway (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tymesynk/2136587888/) by tymesynk License: Attribution, Non Commercial
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/)