Roles throughout the task

Throughout this task, I will be working with Anyia, Emily and Keeley, we have chosen this group as we all agree that we will work well together and be well organised. If filming together does not work effectively the first time, we may need to reconsider the group.


Throughout my group, we have assigned roles for our preliminary task.
We have decided that since it is the first task, we will allow keeley and anyia to direct and film so we can observe how well they do. We feel that keeley and anyia will be good at this role as they are hard working and organised: the job will get done fairly quickly. We have decided that myself and Emily will be captured throughout the scene, while observing the techniques before we try directing/filming next time.

Enjoying blogging?

So far, I am really enjoying blogging. It is a creative and simple way of organising everything relating to the task.

It allows me to store all my thoughts/ideas/ and plans in one area, which is extremely helpful towards this subject.

 

I am looking forward to expanding my blog in the future.

Research definitions

Throughout our preliminary task, we will include these techniques:

Match on action:

 Match on action is a technique of filming used in many sorts of films. It consists of connecting 2 shots together in which a character finishes off an action in the second shot that was started in the first one, for example a clip of a character walking through a door in which he opens the door being filmed from behind then the clip cuts to him walking through from the other one.                          

 

180 degree rule

A rule in continuity editing that states the position of the camera should never change the right-to-left relationships of characters in a scene. The one exception is when the camera is panning, although too much of this can be dizzying if not confusing.


Shot/reverse shot
Shot reverse shot is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), followed by the other character looking back at the first character.

Preliminary excercise

For our first piece of coursework, we will carry out 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. Throughout this task, we need to demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot, and 180 degree rule. This task will benefit myself and my future work as it will allow me to get accustomed to using these features throughout my filming.