Preliminary Task Evaluation

Preliminary task evaluation 
Our preliminary task was to film and edit a short. It must include an opening door, a character crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, followed by the two exchanges a few lines of dialogue. Our task demonstrated match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule. 




Match on action/ Cutting on action is an editing technique for continuity editing in which one shot cuts to another shot, illustrating action. This creates the impression of a sense of continuity, the action carrying through creates a “visual bridge” which draws the viewer’s attention away from slight cutting or continuity issues. Match on action portrays a continuous sense of the same action rather than matching two separate things. 


Shot/ reverse shot is also a continuity editing technique used in conversations or simply a character looking at another character or an object. a shot/reverse shot shows reveals what the character is looking at, either at a point of view or over the shoulder. shot/reverse shot often ties in with the 180-degree rule to retain continuity by not distorting the audiences sense of location of the characters in the shot.

The 180-degree rule is a filming guideline that participants in a scene should have the same left-right relationship to one another, with filming only taking place in the 180 degree in which this maintained in a conversation. this shot allows the audience to grasp a greater sense of location in the scene.

We chose to present a conversation between a patient suffering mental illness and a psychiatrist. We thought this would be a nice introduction to our chosen genre, for our main task, which is Thriller. we filmed this in the common room within our sixth form. to our advantage there are many sofas in this room, making it suitable for our storyline, as a psychiatrist's room very commonly withhold comfy chairs or sofas. There was also very high key lighting in this particular room.This fits nicely with our idea, as it can be perceived as 'clinical'.