The Preliminary Task

For this task we were in groups of 3 and we had to display our knowledge on the 180 degree rule and continuity during dialogue between 2 people. We had to film someone (Katie Lee) opening a door, walking into a room and then talking to someone else (Kayleigh Hobbs). Before we starting filming we created a storyboard which ensured we did not break the 180 degree rule and to allow us to know what we were doing. To make sure the continuity editing was good we took a lot of takes of the same clips so when we edited the footage we had a lot to choose from.

The 180 degree rule is a guideline which states that while filming two characters in the same scene they should always be on the same side of the frame in relation to each other. This makes the conversation look realistic and breaking this rule may confuse your audience and will not look effective.

As one of the main focus points of this task was continuity we had make sure we used match on action while editing the clips on iMovie. To do this we filmed Kayleigh throwing a piece of paper into a bin. We film it from a number of different angles and we edited the clips inserting them next to each other and cutting them in such a way to make each clip flow into the next which makes it looks like a fluent, continuous clip.

While editing our footage we encountered a number of problems. One of these included Katie walking through the door which we took from a couple of angles. When we put the clips together on iMovie the match on action was not right therefore it did not look right. to over come this problem we inserted extra clips of Kayleigh to allow the angle of Katie to slightly change without breaking match on action. Another problem was importing the footage on to iMovie. As the class only had import leads we had to wait til the end of the lesson to import therefore we had to spend a lot of our own time editing the footage.

WWW- I think the task went well as we had fun making it and we did not break the 180 degree rule which looks effective. Also the match on action of Kayleigh throwing the paper in the bin is effective as the match on action is very good as they flow into each other at the right points.

EBI- I think we could have improved this task by taking more care with a storyboard and thinking more in depth of all the different camera angles and shot types we could have used to make it more effective and realistic.