Shot Reverse Shot

Shot Reverse Shot is another film technique I learnt.

I found that it is where one character is shown looking at one character and then, the character being looked at in the beggining is then found looking back at the other character or first.

Continuity Editing

Another editing rule is 'Continuity editing' otherwise known as 'Match On Action'.

I learnt that this is when you say are filming someone walking into a building and shutting the door behind them, and then want to carry on filming inside the building when they are just walking in and closing the door behind them. To make this look as if the whole shot has been shot at the same time giving an impression that there are more than one cameras is where the editing of Continuity takes place. This is done by when filming the person walking towards a building and then closing the door, you would then film the exact same movements but inside the building. so when editing you can move these two shots together and say wen an actor puts his/her hand on the door handle to open it you would then use the shot that was filmed inside the building and match the same movement of the hand on the door handle so it looks as if it is running continuously.

180 Degree Rule

Before filming my premliminary task i need to know some basic filming rules like the 180 degree rule. I learnt from this that say two characters in a scene should always have the same placing in a shot for example if two actors were facing eachother one on the left and one on the right then whenever moving the camera for a difernt angle on position the actors should remain in the same position as they were in before i.e the actor previously on the left should be on the left of the shot again and the same for the actor who was on the right.