The Preliminary Exercise

For the Preliminary exercise we were given the following brief:

Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

From this we were very aware that we had to film a short piece of footage to a high standard as well as neatly editing the footage afterwards.

We decided that we would go about this by using a variety of cleverly angled shots as well as some wide and pan shots. We also wanted to make sure we were aware that everything we needed was in the shot frame.








After doing this were we able to get some practice at using the camera and other equipment. Also it helped us in forming an idea for the development of our title sequence. From this we learnt on how to create a better setting, in creating shadows where needed. We took on a very Film Noir style cinematography, however the script was far more modern.