Preliminary Exersise: Brief

We are going to do a 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. The task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.


Match on action:
Match on action is where one action is divided into many different shots, which helps to create a sense of continuity in the scene.


Shot/reverse shot:
A shot that lets us see the scene from the character's point of view. See Classwork: Camera Shot/Movement for examples of this.


180 degree rule:
The 180 degree rule insures that when there are 2 characters talking to each other, the position of the camera is such that it does not look like the two people are sitting side-by-side.