Shot Reverse Shot - Is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off screen), and the other character is shown looking back at the first character. Since the characters are shown faceing different directions it is presumed they are looking at eachother.
180 degrees Rule - An imaginary line connects the characters and by keeping the camera on one side of this line for every shot of the scene, the first character will always frame right to the second. If the rule is broken it will look like they are standing in the same position.
Match on action - is an editing technique for continuing editing in which one shot cuts to another shot portraying the action of the subject in the first shot.
We did this by making a short film demonstrating all of these. To show shot reverse shot we filmed Kate and I having a conversation with the camera switching between our faces. We also showed an over the shoulder shot here. For match on action we filmed Kate pushing on a door and then we cut to the other side watching her walk through it. After we filmed all the footage we then imported it onto the computer and started editing it on final cut. We had learn how to use this software but it was quite easy to work once you knew where to find everything. After editing we exported it and uploaded it to YouTube.
From doing this preliminary I learnt a lot about how the camera works and that it can be quite hard to edit two shots together and make it look smooth, this is really important when doing things such as match on action. The main reason for doing this task was too learn more about shot types and to get used to working with the camera and software, this is why we used ourselves in it with not very good acting, just so we could edit it. For future projects we will probably use more willing and better actors because we will concentrate more on the content.
From doing this preliminary I learnt a lot about how the camera works and that it can be quite hard to edit two shots together and make it look smooth, this is really important when doing things such as match on action. The main reason for doing this task was too learn more about shot types and to get used to working with the camera and software, this is why we used ourselves in it with not very good acting, just so we could edit it. For future projects we will probably use more willing and better actors because we will concentrate more on the content.
Here is our finished preliminary video...
good, but the one thing you're missing is what links these 3 techniques: the continuity editing style
ReplyDelete