Preliminary Exercise, filming!

Today in our lessons we filmed for the first time. We used a tripod and a camera to film a short 2 minute long clip, the clip was based on a person who walked into a room and had a chat with another person. In filming we had to bear in mind these three rules:

• Match on action
• 180 degree rule
• shot/reverse shot

We endured quite a few out-takes, at the end of the filming we were all satisfied and pleased with our ending result.

This is our final piece for our preliminary exercise!

Close Up/Medium/Long shots!

Close up - Close-ups show an enlarged view of a person/object, they also display the most detail, but they do not include the broader scene.

Medium Shot - A medium shot shows a normal sized view of an object/person like a person would expect to see with their own eyes.

 Long Shot - This shot shows people/objects from a long distance.

High/Low angle shots!

High Angle Shot - This shows us from a ground view, this is designed to make the character/object seem larger and to make it look like they have dominance over the rest.

 Low Angle Shot - This shows us from a 'bird's eye view' of events. It is designed to make the object/ character look smaller than they really are, this is trying to say that someone is inferior over them.

Wide/Establishing shots!

Wide Shot - Shows a whole person or object allowing the audience to see everything around them, this shot is intended to help the viewers to see what is going on around somebody/something.

Establishing Shot - This shot sets the scene of action, it often involves shots of scenery also the setting where the action is about to take place. This is intended to help the audience see where events are about to take place.

Match On Action

Match On Action is a cut made on action or movement between two shots in which the action has been overlapped either by repetition of the action or by the use of more than one camera.

This is a great example of a Match On Action video.

180 Degree Rule

180 Degree Rule is a basic guideline regarding the relationship between a character and another characters or object within the scene. An imaginary line called the axis connects the characters or objects. Bkeeping the camera in one side of the line for every shot in the scene, the first character will always be frame right of the second character, who is then always frame left of the first.

Shot/Reverse shot

Shot/Reverse shot is where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen) and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character. The characters are looking at each other so the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.

This is a great example of a shot/reverse shot.