1. Video Preliminary exercise: <br />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. <br />A Match Cut <br />A cut in film editing from one scene to another, in which the two camera shots' compositional elements match, helping to establish a strong continuity of action. It can be used to underline a connection between two separate elements, or for purely visual reasons. In a match cut, an object or action shown in the first shot is repeated in some fashion in the second shot; the objects may be the same, be similar, or have similar shapes or uses.<br />In vertigo a match cut is used to establish the relationship between Madeleine/Carlotta and provides an epiphany for Scotty where he understands the link between the two.<br />Shot Reverse Shot <br />A film technique wherein one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking quot;
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at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.<br />Shot reverse shot is a feature of the quot;
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Hollywood style of continuity editing, which deemphasizes transitions between shots such that the audience perceives one continuous action that develops linearly, chronologically, and logically. <br />382206530480The 180° rule<br />a basic guideline in film making that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line. The new shot, from the opposite side, is known as a reverse angle.<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdyyuqmCW14<br />