Brief Intro to the 'Preliminary Task Excercise'

What is it?

It is a 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.

Match on action- where there is s shot of the character starting an action, and finishing it in the next shot. 

 

 Shot/reverse shot- an editing pattern that cuts to the view in the opposite direction.

 

180 degree rule- The rule of line-crossing is sometimes called the 180° rule. This refers to keeping the camera position within a field of 180°

I'm excited to start the prelim task because it will be my first time actually filming and editing. This will be helpful as the experience I will gain will allow me to go into the actual process of filming the opening sequence with much more confidence. 
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