Preliminary Task

In this task we had to plan, film and edit a short video clip that we recorded. The storyboard below shows the idea i had for my short video clip. The storyboard shows someone walking through the door, sitting at a table then talking to another person. There is very little dialogue in the video just short sentences. I looked at three types of editing and tried to include them in my video these are:

• Match on action - is where one shot cuts to another shot and shows the action that is still going on from the first shot.  

• Shot/reverse shot - is normally used when two people are having a conversation. Shot reverse shot shows the first person speaking then shows the second persons reaction. 

• 180-degree rule - is a a guideline in filming that the people in the scene should have the same 'left - right' relationship with each other. However, the filming must take place within the 180 degree angle which this is maintained in a conversation.

  Preliminary Task from Becky Moffat on Vimeo.

Learning Comment 
From this piece of research I have learnt new camera angles that I didn't know about before. These include the 180-degree rule, match on action and shot/reverse shot. From this research i have found that using a 180-degree rule shot makes it easier to edit together, this is because the 2 shots will flow together nicely. From this task I have found it things will i will need to use in my opening scene. For example one thing i have realised is that i will need to press record then wait a few seconds before the actor speaks or comes into shot. This is because in my shot clip above, the start of the sentence or scene gets cut out when editing the shot. From editing this task i have learnt that it would have been easier to edit if I had started recording the individual clips before the person has started talking. This way the clips would't cut out the start of the speech.