Preliminary Task:

In our preliminary task we were asked to produce a short film that consisted of the 180 degree rule, match-on-action, a shot reverse shot, an eyeline match and a dialogue exchange between 2 characters. The 180 degree rule was very important in our video, because it gives the audience an insight to what characters are in what position, and then enforcing the 180 degree rule will make sure these characters stay in this position:

 
Here is a diagram of the 180 degree rule. As you can see, if the camera is placed on the right hand side, the character in yellow is on the left side of the screen and the character in blue is on the right. If you change this and put the camera on the left, the characters are in opposite positions. This would confuse the audience, so that is why the 180 degree rule is important.

A Shot reverse Shot is two or more clips that focus on two different people. A shot reverse shot is often used to show conversation between two people looking in opposite directions.

Here is an example of a Shot Reverse Shot (SRS):


Match On Action
A Match On Action shot is 'either an action commenced in shot A is completed in shot B, or an action in shot A is mirrored by an action in shot B'.


An example of a Match on Action.

Finally we were asked to incorporate an Eyeline match. An Eyeline match is when you can clearly see in a scene that two people are directly looking at eachother.


An Example of an Eyeline match.

We then used iMovie to edit the clips we had created to form a 2 minute clip that ran smoothly, and contained all the criteria we were asked to include: