Evaluating the preliminary task

The preliminary task was to create an opening sequence to a film which involved the male protagonist walking across the screen to sit down next to the female protagonist to start a conversation. Our task was to include the match on action shot, which allows the audience to see the departure and arrival of a character from room to room, inside to outside, or basically one scene to another. We also had to include shot reverse shot while maintaining the 180 degree rule which is where the camera cannot spin around more than 180 degrees past a character, object or scene. My role was to edit the scenes after they have been films, this is called an editor.

This is a match on action shot taken from the recorded film.

This is a shot reverse shot, commonly used in conversation as seen to the left.

This is an extract from the opening sequence we recorded in our group, it is a shot reverse shot maintaining the 180 degree rule.

Characters involved in this podcast are Jade Coombes and Adam Meeham, Conor Taylor was filming and him and I then edited the film. I feel our recording was quite successful as we included all shots needed and the correct conventions within the sequence, conventions include a commonly used romantic setting and books to emphasize the point that it was filmed at a school. As I am in a group with people I am friends with, I feel that we work well as a group and feel comfortable sharing ideas, this is important so that everyone has a say in what is being done. The actors listened well to the director/filmer and I now feel slightly more comfortable editing.