The first task i did was the Preliminary task, for this we had to make a shot movie using a few rules we had to use. One of these rules was the 180 degree rule. This is a basic rule for two characters when they are in the shot. In this scene the person on the left should always stay on the left hand side, and the person on the right of the shot should always stay on the right. But if this rule is broken and the camera goes past the 180 degree rule, the characters seem to move to jump from the left side of the screen to the right side. Which can confuse the audience if you do, one cut the then cross the 180 degree rule. Also when you do an over the shoulder shot you need to make sure the person on the left, still stays on the left hand of the screen, also on top of this you need to make sure the eye line between the two people are matching up. This taught me how to keep the audience know what’s happening in the scene, without them getting confused. This is a good thing to know for when i am making a movie, so the audience knows what’s happening. The next rule we had to do in our task was match on action, this shot shows the way someone takes something from someone, i.e. a memory stick and the camera angle is cut half way through it and changed the angle to show the other person taking the memory stick, to show that it has been passed, and shows the different angles. Or it could show POV of the two people passing the memory stick. This task helped me learn how to do the 'match on action shot' makes the video look more professional and interesting. The last rule we had to put into this video was a 'shot reverse shot' this shot shows the distance between two people because it goes from one person looking at the other person, then it switching looking at each other then another cut of the person looking back at the other person. It shows the characters expression on their faces. It has made the video more interesting and professional.
