Top Banner
PRELIMINARY TASK The Case This short PowerPoint explains how the: 180 Degree Rule Shot reverse Shot Continuity Editing was all used throughout my short film.
4
Welcome message from author
This document is posted to help you gain knowledge. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think about it! Share it to your friends and learn new things together.
Transcript
Page 1: Preliminary task

PRELIMINARY TASK The Case

This short PowerPoint explains how the:• 180 Degree Rule• Shot reverse Shot• Continuity Editingwas all used throughout my short film.

Page 2: Preliminary task

180 Degree Rule First we have the 180 degree rule. The 180-degree rule is just a basic guiding

applying to the on-screen spatial relationship between two characters in a scene. We can describe this using an imaginary line (axis) connects the characters. When filming the camera must stay at one side of the axis, if not we call this crossing the line. It can also complicate things for the viewer such as if we shoot from one side the character walking to the left, but then switch the camera to the other side to the viewer this will look like they are walking back on themselves.

In our film we successfully used this rule, by having Katie at one side of the table and Shannon at the other, and keeping the camera at the one side of the axis. Here is a drawn picture to help describe and show what we did.

Page 3: Preliminary task

Shot Reverse Shot Shot reverse shot is a film technique

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. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.

Unfortunately in our film we was less successful as making this as obvious as we were with our 180 Degree Rule, as we did not show it going from character to character. I have drawn a diagram to help describe and show what we did, which we thought was a shot reverse shot. Now we have learnt from our mistakes and use it to move on!

Page 4: Preliminary task

Continuity Editing Continuity editing, the purpose of continuity

editing is to smooth over the inherent discontinuity of the editing process and to establish a logical coherence between shots.

We did this very successfully in our film, as we did it as Katie opening the door and walking through, and then took another shot of her coming out the door at the other side, as these were two different shots they needed editing together, we did this on the mac computers, to make it as smoothly as possible for the best effect.