Evaluation Preliminary Task

We were asked to create an opening sequence which involved one character moving across a room and sitting down and talking to another character. We had to include a match on action shot, and shot reverse shot while maintaining the 180 degree rule.

I had the role of playing an actor in the sequence, I helped direct the scenes I wasn't in and helped to edit the sequence.

This is a still image of the match on action shot we included in our piece. I helped to direct this part of our sequence, we used a long to medium shot of him walking down the stairs and out of the door.

 This is a still image of the shot reverse shot we included in our sequence, at this part of our piece I had the role of an actor. We also used a medium shot of us actors talking to one another.

 

This is a still image example of our shot reverse shot while maintaining the 180 degree rule. Again I had the role of an actor and we used an over the shoulder shot to capture this part of our sequence.

We were very happy with our final result as we managed to include all the necessary shots in our sequence, abiding by the 180 degree rule and used the correct conventions to fit the genre of our opening sequence.

I think to improve it we could have made the jumps from one scene to another a lot more fluid and slower paced because the quick scene changes would fit more of a horror or thriller genre rather than our own. Also, although the match on action shot matched up well I think we had the actor too close to the camera as he passed it to move to the door. But the shot types for our shot reverse shot were appropriate for the dialogue we used.

We worked well as a group, each of us giving ideas and having our own input. Us actors listened well to the direction given while adding our own ideas. We each had a turn editing as we had to get our sequence down from one minute to thirty-five seconds and all worked well as a team.

I feel a lot more confident using the camera and although there are a few things I need to learn I am fairly confident using Imovie to edit.