Prelim Evaluation

What is the 180 degree rule?

The rule states that the camera(s) should remain the same side of an imaginary line. The line is drawn perpendicular to the camera’s viewpoint in the establishing shot of the scene. The rule also enforces continuity of the film, an example is that in a car chase scene, if the car is travelling from right to left, the next shot must also be shot from the same side meaning the car has to end the frame right to left again. The same applies for football matches and other sport.

A match on action:

Match on action (or cutting on action) is an editing technique for continuity editing in which one shot cuts to another shot portraying the action of the subject in the first shot. This creates the impression of a sense of continuity – the action carrying through creates a visual bridge which draws the viewers’ attention away from the slight cutting or continuity issues. This is not a graphic match or match cut, it portrays a continuous sense of the same action rather than matching two separate things.

Eye line match:

An eyeline match is a film editing technique associated with the continuity editing system. It is based on the premise that the audience will want to see what the character on-screen is seeing. The eyeline match begins with a character looking at something off-screen, followed by a cut to the object or person at which he is looking. For example, a shot showing a man looking off-screen to the left is followed by a shot of the television that he is watching

Reverse Shot

Shot reverse shot is a continuity editing technique used in conversations or simply characters looking at each other or objects. A shot showing what the character is supposedly looking at (either a point of view or over the shoulder shot) is followed by a reverse angle shot of the character themselves looking at it, or of the other character looking back at them, for example. Shot reverse shot often ties in with the 180 degrees rule to retain continuity by not distorting the audience’s sense of location of the characters in the shots

Throughout the whole of our production we managed to stick to the 180 degree rule without hopefully breaking the rule. We did take caution when filming our production and deleting scenes that broke that rule. We used the match on action when we passed over the folder from George to Sam, it was quite successful with the 180 degree rule still in mind not to break. When we did the close up of George with the speech ‘Who are you’ the audience might not of known who he was speaking too, then the camera turns to Sam to make the Eyeline shot. The reverse shot is in the same scene as the eyeline shot.

The film process went really well. This was due to the fact that we all came up with great ideas and managed to develop all our ideas into one. We converted our ideas onto a storyboard making a lot easier to record as we knew what to say and what to do. We did make a couple of errors when we were recording, but obviously we could simply delete them and re take them. Overall the filming went perfect.

The editing was just the same, we knew what we were doing to some extend and the music layout was in perfect time with our production meaning it wasn’t hard to cut out music parts. We made a few parts with music over it, with it loud or quite but also intense and not. We didn’t use transitions in our actual video, but for the titles that were quite easy we did fade them out and in which was in perfect time with music and the video its self.