Film techniques

 

AS Media Studies- Preliminary Film Task

 

This 30 second long clip is part of my Media preliminary task, our stimulus was "person opening door walking across room and exchanging dialogue with another character" I had to go about this with a task of using the 180 degree rule and reverse shots.

 

180 degree rule

 

 

The 180 degree rule is a way to make perspective in film more effective to the audience, when doing over the shoulder shots you must make sure to use the 180 rule as it makes the shot more realistic and as if you are part of the conversation.

We used the rule during the brief section of dialogue  using a tripod to keep the camera steady and consistent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reverse Shot/ action match

 

 

 

We used a reverse shot/ action match shot for the first few seconds of the film where the character opens a door. we decided to only show the lower half of the character for this shot to create a bit of suspense as to who the character is. as the character reaches for the door handle we see....



 

 

a cut to this shot where we see the perspective from the inside of the door, we edited this using action match so that the handle/ door was at the exact same position so it seems as if its all one event.