Prelim Task analysis DRAFT

This task consisted of one person walking through a corridor, entering a room and sitting down; to then have a conversation with another person. The short scene in which we filmed contained around 9 shots. A 180 degree rule had to be applied. This guild line for filming says that two characters in the same scene must have the same left/right relationship to each other. However, if the camera passes over an imaginary axis joining the two subjects, it is then called crossing the line.

The short film uses match-on action-which works, due to background music quieting down for speech. After the match-on action, shot-reverse shot is used in the rest of the footage. The editing is smooth, which was difficult to complete due to many errors, and unsteady camera shots that needed to be cut out. The shots include: low angle, close up, medium shot, over the shoulder, long shot, point of view shot, third person, canned and tracking. These shots work extremely well as they blend into each other without fault.