Preliminary Task

The preliminary task is a demonstration of continuity editing. It must show successful use of:

Match on action- where you see a character doing something in one shot and continues it in another.

Shot/reverse shot- where the camera films over person A’s shoulder while person B is talking. It then cuts to show person B talking while being filmed over Person A’s shoulder

180 degree rule-this rule is a basic guideline that states that two characters in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called “crossing the line”.

Eye line match- this is where a close up of a person’s face and then cuts to someone or something else. This makes it look like the person is looking at this object.

Character A walks towards the door.

Character A enters through the door and crosses the room to where B is seated.

Character A+B exchange few lines of dialogue.

There is at least one eye line match

Either character A or B exits the room.