Our preliminary task consisted of the 180 degree rule, shot reverse shot, match on action and an eye line match.
To stay on the 180 degree rule guidelines, the two characters which are being filmed, must stay on either the left or the right side throughout the filming. This stops the audience getting confused about what role the characters play in the film.
Shot reverse shot is is where the camera follows the conversation by filming the character speaking by them selves, and then reverses to the other character to film them speaking.
A match on action is a camera shot where you see two characters exchanging an object.
An eye line match is where the two characters stay at eye level at all time throughout the filming of that scene.
For My Preliminary Task, we worked as a group of three and i was in charge of filming the scene. We including a match on action show, the object being a memory stick, shot reverse shot, eye line match and we stayed in the guidelines of the 180 degree rule. We also included incidental music to let the audience know what type of atmosphere it was and how the characters were feeling. The frequency of the soundtrack started off loud and then as it came to the end, the sound faded out.
I felt as if our preliminary task went rather well and we did well by puting all four camera actions in.
