Preliminary task

Coursework preliminary task

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.

By next lesson:

1. Set up your own AS Media Studies coursework blog and email me the address: jky@cheney.oxon.sch.uk
2. Storyboard an idea for a scene that would work for the above brief, including camera angles. shot duration and any dialogue. Here is a link to the storyboard template - download it, print it off and away you go: http://www.ftvstudy.com/page24/files/page24_2.png

For your reference:

Match on action is when some action occurring before the cut is picked up where the cut left it by the shot immediately following. For example, a shot of someone tossing a ball can be edited to show two different views, being sure that the second shot shows the arm of the subject in the same stage of its motion as it was left when cutting from the first shot.

Shot/reverse shot is when a scene shows a series of opposing views, so that the audience sees action from both sides. The most common of these is Over The Shoulder and Over The Shoulder Reverse.

The 180° rule is 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.