Preliminary Exercise

Continuity editing consists of a variety of different shots which show the scene's progression.

For this task(Video above), we had to follow three rules:
-180 Degree rule
This is a guideline in filming, where the character's must face eachother, left right, in a shot.
However, if the camera goes over an imaginary axis, it becomes on the opposite side and is known as a reverse angle.
here's an image showing this;



-Match on action
This consists of the shots where you join completely different angles together to make the film flow correctly.
An example of this is when Max pulls down the handle for the door.


-Shot/Reverse shot
This is the technique of the camera looking over the shoulder of one character to see the other whilst they are saying their dialogue. This is often used for conversation scenes.
This gives the effect for the audience to believe the two characters are talking or looking at eachother.
This is an example from our video.

Me, Max and Alex worked together to create our sequence. Max and I acted whilst Alex did the filming.
Our object of choice was originally a mug, but then we found a teddy bear and thought that would work much better.
Because all three of us missed the main lesson on this task, we didn't have enough time to storyboard or scene, and chose to improvise the dialogue instead of writing out an entire script.
Max and I directed Alex's camerawork for each shot we worked with him, because both me and Max had done this type of thing before, we had to teach him a few camera tricks too.
We decided to use the nightvision as practice, since we never have before and thought we'd try it out.