What's the task about?
The next task we are completing is the continuity task, this involves filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair or standing opposite another character. After this the two characters (Emma and Abbie) will exchange a couple of lines. This task should demonstrate the following camera shots: match on match action, shot/reverse shot and then 180-degree rule.
What's going happen?
We are hoping this to take place in the PE corridor, and the dance studio, but if not we will adapt our task to a more suitable place.
Firstly Emma will walk down the PE corridor, and then enter the dance studio. She will open the door,we will film this using the camera shot match on action. This will show her entering the room from the outside, and will also show her entering from the inside. After this she will walk over to Abbie who is sat on the bench on her phone, then using the camera shot shot/reverse shot, we will show Abbie and Emma having a short and simple conversation :
Emma: Are you doing silver D OF E?
Abbie:No, I'm doing Gold.
Also during this conversation
180-degree rule will be used.
After this conversation Abbie exits the dance studio.
Camera shots used in this task:
match on match action:
In the continuity task we are going to use camera shot match on match action, this will demonstrate Emma walking into the dance studio from the outside and the inside in one shot.
180-degree rule:
The 180-degree rule is most commonly used during a conversation between two people, this camera shot is when the camera stays on one side of the two people and the camera doesn't go beyond 180 degrees, here is a picture to visually explain.
shot reverse shot:
In this short film we will also be using the camera angle shot reverse shot, this also mostly used during a conversation between two people. This shot is where one character is shown looking at another character, and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character.
