Evaluation Question 7

Our preliminary exercise was a task to help improve our use of continuity. This involved 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.

The main task was to write and record the first two minutes of a film, including a title sequence. We had transferred after rehearsing the skills we used in the preliminary task to our main task, for example we used the same idea of entering through a door to expresses a match on action. Also, we managed to use shot reverse shot in the conversations we had filmed and kept to the 180 degree line of action rule. We did improve our edition with practice from the preliminary task. Our edits were more accurate and continues and they became much easier to do as we started editing our main film. 

Also, dialogue was much easier to match than it was in the preliminary task and that became easier the methods we used in the main task were by and large identical.  Except in the main task we had to record outside but the camera could capture all the dialogue as its microphone wasn’t as got outside so we used a zoom microphone which we didn’t use in the preliminary exercise which we thought we added quite well and manage to adapt and make it work as it was also the first time we used that and edit with it.   

 eye-line match