Continuity Editing Intro

This week we have been planning for 'The Encounter' task we were set, making sure to relate to the brief and include everything the footage required. We used a variety of shots and angles to portray different meanings in each shot and kept to the 180 degree rule always.

The idea for our footage is about a misbehaved student, Vicky who gets sent to her camp Head Of Year's office. We wanted to make this funny to watch and enjoyable and so the two characters have very contrasting personalities. 

The brief states that we must demonstrate a clear knowledge of match on action, shot/reverse/shot, rule of thirds and the 180 degree rule.

Match On Action
Where the footage cuts from one shot to another point of view that matches the first shots action. On our storyboard, we decided to use this on the student opening the Head Of Year's door, then it would cut to where she walks in and speaks to the teacher. Also, we planned to use this shot on the teacher handing the student a piece of paper, then it cuts to her taking it from him so that we would have a different use of it to everyone else.

Shot/Reverse/Shot A film technique where one character is shown looking at another character and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character, then returns back to the first shot. This helps to see the other persons reaction to what the first person is saying. We planned to use this on the conversation between the teacher and student, it would show the teacher talking, then cut to the students reaction, then back to the teacher, giving the audience an understanding of the type of relationship they have.

180 degree rule

In film making, this is a basic guideline that two characters should  always have the same left and right relationship to each other. When the camera passes over the axis connecting the two subjects, this is referred to as crossing the line. This is used so that the audience is not confused. With our over the shoulder shots, our storyboard shows clearly that the teacher is always on the left, so we can always refer back to this rule when filming.

Rule Of Thirds

1. 

   Is applied by aligning a subject with the guide lines, the frame is divided into nine sections, which acts as a guide for positioning the image. In shots of people, their eyes are placed approximately 1/3 of the way down the frame. We have made sure to apply this to all shots of the people in our footage.
2. 
    In Landscapes, the horizon falls on the upper or lower horizontal dividing line. If the focus is the land, the horizon should fall on the upper third, if the focus is the sky, the horizon should fall on the lower third.