Preliminary Exercise

For the preliminary exercise which we did on Tuesday, my group insisted of Liam, Charna, Tina, and me.
Our task was to create a scene in which person number 1 walked along a hallway, opened a door and had a short conversation with person number 2.

This is the final scene Liam and I edited:


We had to follow certain rules so that our final scene would look like it would in a soap opera or in a film.
These rules were:
the 180 degree rule,
match on action and
shot/reverse shot.

The the 180 degree rule is a basic rule which is mostly used when filming a dialogue. When filming a conversation the camera must always be on the same site and not crossing the imaginary line. This means the camera is always on the same shoulder/site of the actors.






Picture of
showing the
180° rule.
(Taken from
wikipedia)




The match on action we used was person number 1 going into the room. The shot began outside in the corridor and was continued inside of the room. This means that the shot was completed not in one shot but in two.
When we edited it we basically synced both shots together. This is also known as continuity editing.




















The shot/reverse shot is basically a scene repeated from another point of view. We used this technique when person 1 came into the room and person 2 reacted to it.











I think we did the preliminary exercise pretty good but we could improve it by better acting so it seems more realistic.