Preliminary Task Evaluation

Preliminary Task Evaluation

 
1.What is the 180 degree rule? a match on action? and eyeline match? How did you incorporate them in your film?


The 180 degree rule is when there is a conversation between 2 people, and an imaginary line (axis) which connects the characters  The camera must beon one side of this axis for the whole scene.   Object being filmed must stay in the centre while the camera is always facing the object. The purpose of the rule is to keep the audience properly oriented. If, for example, actor A on the screen is looking from left to right, and actor B is looking from right to left, they will be properly oriented as long as you stay on the same side of the 180 degree line. But, if for whatever reason, you move the camera around for another part of the dialog, and you cross that 180, then both actors will be looking from either right to left, or vice versa, as you cut back and forth. That will be off-putting to the viewer.





A match on action is cutting from a long shot to a short shot, showing the passing over of something or the holding or grabbing of something. We used this technique in the task when I was on the phone and we cut from a long shot to a short shot showing my hand holding the phone. Match on action's create a sense of continuity



An eyeline match is when you film from certain angles to show the eyelines of the two characters looking directly at each other. In the task we would use this when doing a shot reverse shot of the two characters however we did not use this in our video as we didn't have a conversation between two people in ours as some of our footage got deleted. However if we were to do the task again we would have dialogue from the other person on the other side of the phone. This would of improved our film as we could of used more shots and it would of made the video more interesting. 


2. How did the filmmaking process go in terms of filming shots from the storyboard and filming around college?

The filmmaking process went well, but it was hard to get the right angles on the camera from the storyboard and it took a long time to get the correct angles. It was also difficult filming round the college as there were other people filming at the same time as us and in the same places meaning we were getting in each others way and had to restart a few times. Also as people were in lessons we were limited on to where we could film.

3. What did you learn about video editing on adobe premiere? Think in terms of using transitions, adding sound and titles.
I learnt how to use the different editing tools for example the cutting tools. Also I learnt how to import music onto our videos and put it the right places and also add another piece of music and have them play together. During the filming process we filmed a scene where I was using the wrong hand to hold my phone so I had to learn how to flip the video round to make it look like my other hand.