Preliminary Task

You can work in groups of up to FOUR people.

The preliminary task precedes your main task and is a chance for you to practise your skills without the pressure of it counting towards your final grade.

The brief:

Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task needs to demonstrate:

• match on action
• shot/reverse shot
• the 180-degree rule

You will find information on these three skills on this presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/mrhoward12/prelim-task-continuity-editing?next_slideshow=1 

You can also see some videos that show these skills in action:

• match on action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv93covb53w
• short/reverse shot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLkUHZ1qips
• 180-degree rule: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTNUq-stj6M