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.