Research for Prelim task

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. Main task: the titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes. All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source. Both preliminary and main tasks may be done individually or as a group. Maximum four members to a group."

Match On Action refers to an editing technique where during an action shot it cuts to another view of the same action.


Shot reverse Shot refers to a film technique where there is a shot from one characters point of view looking at another, followed by a shot from the second characters point of view looking at the first.


180 degrees angle refers to the guideline rule that two characters within a scene should always share the same left/right relationship to each other.


Our initial idea We are planning on our storyline being about a woman who is in a mental institute. She is in a counselling session with a doctor. The doctor is trying to reach through to her, however the woman remains unresponsive until the very end when she breaks down before the scene cuts off.