Preliminary Task Evaluation

Preliminary Task Evaluation

1. What is the 180 Degree rule? a match on action? and eye line match? and how did you incorporate them in the planning of your film on your storyboard. 

The 180 Degree rule is a guideline within the onscreen relationship between two Objects or Two Characters in a scene. Imagine a scene where two people are sitting at a table eating dinner while having a conversation, strait in the middle of those two characters is an imaginary line called ‘The Axis’. By keeping the camera on one side of the axis for each shot in the scene, the first character is always right of the second character. If the camera was to go on the other side of the line, both characters would be seen on the right in each frame E.G - if it was a shot reverse shot. 

A Match on Action is an Editing Technique for editing in which one shot cuts to another shot showing the action of the character in the first shot. E.G - if a character in a scene goes to open a door, there could be a medium shot of the character walking up to the door and extending there arm to the handle, then the frame changes to a extreme close-up of the hand on the door handle, then a shot behind the door of the character walking into the room. 

An Eyeline Match is an editing technique which is based on what the audience will want to see what the character on-screen is seeing. This is also called a Point of View Shot where the camera is placed where the characters eyes would be. E.G - a man is looking off-screen to his left, and then the frame cuts to a television that he is watching.

In my film i incorporated the 180 Degree Rule, Match on Action and Eye-line Match With a conversation. The 180 Degree rule was used to change the viewing of each character, The Match on Action shot was used when one of the Characters passes a booklet to the other character. and an Eye-line Match was used when one of the characters looks at his phone with it counting down from 10. 

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

The Filming went really well, the shots we filmed were better than i expected. there was some minor errors due to the fact that there were some other people at the side of the shot who didn't react to what the main characters were doing. The Match on Action shot was probably the best shot we used in the film, The Eye-line Match Shot could be more inline with what the character is seeing but apart from that the shots were really good. 

3. What did you learn about video editing on Adobe Premiere? Think in terms of using transitions, adding sound and green screen. 

As i have never used Adobe Premiere before i learned quite a lot about the basics of editing and cutting video clips, sound clips and effects. I didn't really use transitions as i didn't know how to but the green screen effect used was very detailed. For making the green screen effect good i edited the clip in Adobe After Effects (i Have used this software before).