Preliminary Task

Preliminary Task Evaluation

The 180 degree rule is the concept that the camera can only film two characters on one side of an imaginary line that runs through the center of both characters, when they are situated opposite one another. Breaking the 180 degree rule can cause confusion as it will look like the two subjects are facing in the same direction. The 180 degree rule allows the audience to have a greater sense of location in the scene.

The 180 degree rule.

A match on action is an editing technique for continuity where one shot cuts to another shot portraying the action of the subject shown in the first shot. The purpose is to create a sense of continuity and it creates a visual bridge that draws the audiences attention away from sight cutting. It creates a continuous sense of the same action. We used this camera technique in our video when the detonator is handed from Person C to Person B to help the audience continually understand what was happening.

The film making process around the college went well as there were lots of appropriate areas to film in. The biggest problem we had to overcome was other students in the college who were walking around on their lunch breaks, so we had to time ourselves efficiently so that we would not accidentally have them walking around in the background of our shots. We found it difficult to find places to film in that were quiet, without the background noise caused by other students, but this problem could also be overcome as even if there was unnecessary background noise we could edit this out or overpower it with the background music.

A match on action.

Whilst using Adobe Premiere Pro to edit our video together, we learned all of the different tools and their purposes. Admittedly, we only used the basic tools as we were still learning how to use them. We used the razor tool to trim clips to our desired lengths and adjusted the sound settings on each video so that it was not too loud or too quiet. We overlapped videos in order to make the transitions look smoother and elongated some of the clips to make them play for longer. We also learned how to use a green screen to create the explosion in our video.

Green screened explosion