Evaluation of our 2 way convosation

Evaluation

The brief for our project was to film a short two way conversation that considered the , Shot reverse shot, 180 degree rule and match on action.

The 180 degree rule is a line that should not be crossed, you can’t film passed that line otherwise it confuses the audience as the characters would keep changing places.

shot reverse shot is where the camera shot changes from a shot of a person to another person and keeps going back whilst they are having a conversation and would be showing them talking.

An over the shoulder shot could be used to execute this.

Match on action This is where the scene frames are cut properly to show a continuous action and would follow through like it would in real life.

The first thing we did to plan our conversation was write a script,we did this on Celtx, we did this to plan the dialogue  for the 2 way conversation.

After that, we drew up a storyboard which helped show us how the frames for our filming would happen and a brief idea of what sort of action would be happening, how the shot would look and get an idea of where the characters would be.  

we did a shot list so that we could get a more detailed idea of how the shots of the scene were going to look, for example MS for medium shot and LS for long shot.

Next we had to do some location research so we could find a place where we could actually consider filming, after we found a location we had to do a risk assessment to see if it was suitable and safe enough to film in to minimise potential hazards.

During filming our conversation, I found that when i was trying to film a two-shot of the two people talking I had limited space to get far back enough to get them both in the shot as there was a wall directly behind me.

After finishing all of our takes and had all of the footage that we needed we then went on to editing the footage, we used final cut express to do this. We imported all our our footage from our camera onto the final cut software. This enabled us to be able to cut and edit our conversation together and make it look continuous, we also was able to add a title to the beginning of the footage and made it look a bit better by connecting it to the beginning of the filming with a fade in, this stopped the cut of the scene looking so sharp and made it look more gradual. I found using final cut express really easy and could do most basic things to our footage that was needed to complete it. Our filming was able to match our

brief accurately.

We successfully used the shot-reverse-shot in our final editing and it was able to portray both sides of the conversation effectively so that the audience is able to see whos speaking.

Our footage shows the 180 degree rule as none of our filming was shot passed the 180 degree imaginary line therefore, no camera equipment or any extra cast was able to be scene and didn’t break the illusion of it not being real life.

Our two-shot decided what side of the 180 degree line we were going to film from and and we then had to stick to that for the rest of the filming to portray the 180 degree rule.

I think we successfully showed match on action in our filming, as the shots from our scenes all flow continuously and looks like it would in real life. we did this by making sure none of the actions in the scene were repeated, e.g. The character didn’t sit down

twice as that would make it look odd and would be bad continuity.

Evaluation

Evaluation

Our brief was to film a short two way conversation that demonstrates the 180 degree rule, shot reverse shot and match on action.

The 180 degree rule is only filming from one side in order to keep continuity in a scene.

A shot reverse shot is when two people are filmed having a conversation using over the shoulder shots.

Match on action is making sure all frames in the scene show continuous actions, as if it was real life, making sure it flows.

To plan our film we, firstly wrote a script using Celtx, considering the action and dialogue. Next we made a storyboard  and a shot list to see how each shot would look when we came to filming it. For example, we used a long shot when filming one character walking down a corridor in order to establish the character and their surroundings. We then had to research a location that would be suitable for our film and do a risk assessment, considering any safety hazards that could result in an accident or damaging equipment.

The first scene in our piece was a long shot of a character walking down a corridor, making their way towards a door. The next shot was a close up of the same character’s hand opening the door. The camera was then moved to inside the room and we had to match the action in the transition of the scenes of the character walking into the room. Again we had to consider action match when filming the next scene, which was the same character sitting on a chair in the room they have just entered. Finally, the other character in the scene is now involved in a conversation between the two characters using over the shoulder, shot reverse shots.

When we started to film our piece, we had found that we had to refilm pieces of action at the start and end of each scene in order to have a match on action when we edited it, as we could overlap the action. A difficulty we had was filming our shot reverse shot was maintaining the 180 degree line as we couldn’t find any very large spaces suitable for filming.

When we had finished filming we edited our film on Final Cut express. On this software we cut our shots and pieced them together, adding a title at the beginning. This software was very easy to use as we could slow down shots in order to get an accurate flowing film with match on action.

Our film demonstrates the 180 degree rule as all our action is filmed from one side and so the characters do not change places. This makes it easy to follow the action and does not confuse the audience.

The shot reverse shot is also show in our film by a conversation between the two characters.

Match on action is shown accurately in our film as each shot flows. An example of this is when characters open the door as we had to be careful not to repeat any action when editing the shot together.

Charactor profile #2

 

Character profile 2:

Name:  Mrs Horan.

Age:  82.

Occupation: Teacher.

Character traits, appearance, behaviour and personality:  Mucky purple hair, big nostrils, snotty, strick.

Role in my film conversation:  The teacher  that is telling off the student.

Charactor profile #1

Character profile 1:

Name: Miranda.

Age: 15.

Occupation: student.

Character traits, appearance, behaviour and personality:  Black long hair, bad attitude and arrogant.

Role in my film conversation: The student who is in trouble.

Film continuity/ 180 degree rule/ shot-reverse-shot/ Match on action

Film continuity:

This is where all of the scenes are edited and filmed so that they run continuously and looks like it could be real life, where there are no things like jarring or actions being repeated.

180 degree line of action:

This is a rule when filming a scene. This is an imaginary line that should not be crossed, as to the audience it would look like the characters positions would have changed places and would be confusing. For example if two people were having a conversation, the characters positions would seem to keep changing.

Shot-reverse shot:

This is where the camera would be pointing at one person who is possibly talking and would changes shots to another person who is talking and keep going back and forth for the duration of the dialogue, for example, in a two way conversation where the characters aren't able to both get in the same shot.

Match on action:

This is where the scene frames are cut properly to show a continuous action and would follow through like it would in real life.

storyboard page 2

Story board page 1