Preliminary task

For my preliminary task I had to film and edit a character opening a door into a room and walking across the room to engage in a few lines of dialogue with another character. I was in a group of four to do this and the clip only had to be about a minute long.
In the preliminary task I had to demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.


Match on action = Cutting on action or matching on action refers to film editing and video editing techniques where the editor cuts from one shot to another view that matches the first shot's action.

 Shot reserve shot = Shot reverse shot (or shot/counter shot) is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character.

180 degree rule =  In film making, the 180-degree rule is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene.

What technology did you use in the filming and editing of your preliminary task?

We used a camera on a tripod to film and edited our footage on Adobe Premier Pro

What have you learnt from the ideas process, casting, script writing, filming and editing of your preliminary task?

As it was only our preliminary task we didn't spend ages casting we just picked students who were in our class at the time because our plot was a girls walking into the room to give her teacher the homework it looked unrealistic because the teacher was only a 17 year old boy. Likewise, we didn't bother creating a script or storyboard we just went with the flow when filming the footage looked really unrehearsed and unprofessional. As this was my first time using adobe premier pro so it took me a while to work out what I was doing and therefore the film as good as it could be. If I was to do this again I would spend more time coming up with a better story line.