Preliminary Task

The first thing that me and my partner filmed for our coursework was to successfully complete a preliminary task. This included acting with somebody else and filming an interview which went on for around 2 minutes. It had to include the '180 degree rule', match on action and shot reverse shot.

To ensure continuity, there are rules. The '180 degree rule' is when the camera stays on one side of the line throughout the entire film. it allows the viewers to know which characters on on the left and which are on the right. Going over the line would mean that the viewer would become confused and it makes the film look unrealistic.

The shots that I used were:

Shot reverse shot

Panning

Match on action

180

The shot reverse shot is to engage the audience of making the conversation seem real, and lets the viewer see facial expressions and take it in turns to see each character when they are speaking or doing something important for the viewers to see, without any thing unimportant being in the way.

Panning would mean the camera is continually following the character, and the viewer can clearly see the camera is moving. Match on action means having a continuity factor of a scene making sense whilst changing from scene to scene.

Me and my partner made sure we had each of these factors in our film, to ensure a pass.