Preliminary Task

Our first media task is plan and create a Preliminary Task, in this task we haveo include two or three lines of dialogue, as well as someone walking into a room and opening a door; we also haveo include someone sitting down on a chair.

Before we start filming we need to understand these concepts of work, i have researched them on many sites and the one that helped me the most is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/180_degree_rule

During the our preliminary task we had to understand and put into the practice the 180 degree rule and match-on- action.
The 180 degrees rule: The 180 degree rule is a guideline in film making insudtry, the rule states that any two characters in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. Meaning that the camera has to be on the same side either left or right of the character in one peice of conversation. If the camera passes over the imaginary line connecting the two characters, it is called crossing the line. The new shot from the opposite side is called the reverse angle.

match-on- action: Used in film editing, match-on-action is a cut that connects two different views of the same action at the same moment in the movement. It's difficult to visualize this without a real film in front of you, but a diagram may still be useful. In the situation illustrated below, a person stands up from a sitting position.
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Shot 1: In this shot, we see the person beginning to get up from a sitting position The arrow indicates the person's direction of motion.

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Shot 2: There is a cut to this shot, which shows the person finishing standing up. The main difference from shot 1 to shot 2 is the position of the camera.
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Overhead: This overhead diagram illustrates the camera positions for the two shots (the cameras are denoted by the bracketed numbers; the person is the lozenge on the left; the dashed line is the axis of action). When the person begins to stand up, we see the action from the vantage point of camera 1. When the person has stood up quite a bit, we see the action from camera 2.