Preliminary exercise:

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Preliminary exercise: 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 should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.

Matched cut. In a 'matched cut' a familiar relationship between the shots may make the change seem smooth:

Continuity of direction;

Completed action; *

A similar centre of attention in the frame;

A one-step change of shot size (e.g. long to medium);

You will create the following for your preliminary task:

·      Script

·      Storyboard

·      Shot-list

·      Production schedule  

A change of angle (conventionally at least 30 degrees).

*The cut is usually made on an action (for example, a person begins to turn towards a door in one shot; the next shot, taken from the doorway, catches him completing the turn). Because the viewer's eye is absorbed by the action he is unlikely to notice the movement of the cut itself.