Friday, 13 April 2012

The Basics of Filming and Prelim Task

Match on action, over the shoulder shot, 180 degree rule and  shot reverse shot and four of the basics of filming and they ae the main things you have to know when you are filming and editing anything becuase if you dont follow these basics your production would go wrong. 


Match on action
A match on action, is a technique is used when editing film footage and it is a cut that bring together two different views of the same action. What the match on action shot does is that ti brings two shots togehter, and by careful editing it makes it seems as the seem that the motion continues uninterrupted. If your not careful with match on action shots, then you could have situation where you get a jump shot in your editing.The diagram below is an example of a match on action shot:


 http://gemmamerritt.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/match-on-action.jpg

Over the shoulder shot
this show is taken from behid the person who is talking, in other words the subject. Over the shoulder shots help the establish the position of each person wothen the shot and get the see reactions from both subjects in the shot and it helps the audience to see what the other persons point of view is like. It common to cut shots during a conversation to see the view between the different speakers. The diagram below is an example of an over the shoulder shot.


 http://accad.osu.edu/~midori/03_763/cinema/over_shoulder.jpg

180 degree rule
this is a one of the biggest and well known rule when it comes to filming. It is basically a guideline that states that both of the subjects in the same scene should always be filmed on either the left or the right side of thr subject and the camera has to be on that side throughtout that scene. The image below show what the rule is about:

 


Shot reverse shot
this is a film technique where one of the subject is shown looking at the other subject and then the other subject is shown looking back at the first subject. This image below shows this:

  





My Preliminary Task 

The names shown below are part of group 1, which was picked by my media teacher Laura Hopwood. These group members are part of the prelim task.
- Seun Jonah
- Denzel Aifuwa-Morgan
- John Martins
The prelim task must show the following:
- Dialogue (conversation)
- Match-on-match action
- Shot-reverse-shot
- Natural editing

The Roles In My Group:

- Seun Jonah - Actor/Co-Director
- Denzel Aifuwa-Morgan - Camera man/Co-Director
- John Martins - Editor
this link below shows my groups prelim task, that my group filmed and edited: 





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