Preliminary Task

The purpose of this preliminary task is to give us experience with using the cameras and filming in general. The preliminary task has to include:

• A character opening a door with his hand being filmed on the door-(match on action), crossing a room, and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom he or she then exchanges various lines of dialogue.


• Match-on-action shot: A shot that immediately follows another shot to explain the first of the two shots, eg. a shot of a man opening a door, with another shot of the man coming through the door from the other side of it.


• Shot-reverse-shot: Mostly appears during dialogue. For example, a person is being filmed talking to someone, then the other man is filmed talking to the first person with a final shot of the first man in the course of the dialogue.


• Observance of the 180-degree rule: The rule that the camera must not exceed beyond the 180-degree boundary, because if the camera did this, it would confuse the viewer as the characters would change position. However, the camera can exceed the 180-degree boundary only if it is shown by the camera.
  
  For this task, I worked with Talia Welka, Abigail Ipalé and Zack Bellman. Zack was the subject that walked to the door and entered it, and I was the subject he was taking to. Talia and Abigail were filming. After Zack walked in to the room, he sat down in a chair and talked to me about "problems with the Media Studies project". Talia and Abigail filmed one line of dialogue each and made sure there was a five second gap between each line, to make editing easier.
  
  After the filming, we started the editing process. This involved uploading the footage onto Adobe Premiere, cutting out the parts that we felt were not needed, as well as adding special effects and so on. We deleted the five second gaps, and added in different kinds of transitions, eg. fading. By this time I had already learned a thing or two about editing, and we added more effects like different colour contrasts.
  

Match-on-action (Shot 1) Match-on-action (Shot 2)




Shot-reverse-shot




180-degree rule: The camera can be in the red area or the green area, but not in both areas at the same time, unless it is shown by the camera.

Preliminary Task Video: