Preliminary task

Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character:

•  opening a door,
• crossing a room
• sitting down in a chair opposite another character, and exchanging a couple of lines of dialogue.
• This task MUST demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

Planning

□    Notes on what is meant by the 3 shot types.

□    Brainstorm to show ideas for film

□    Storyboard for film

□    Script for the dialogue to film

Preliminary production:

□    Edited film

□    Evaluation/analysis of preliminary production INCLUDING what you learnt from doing it and how this learning will impact upon your main production.

See previous posts for notes on what is meant by the 3 shot types (Hot Fuzz clip) Hot fuzz post