Evaluation Question 7Sara Campeggi

Preliminary Task • Match• On• Action

A match on action, a technique used in film editing, is a cut that connects two different views of the same action at the same moment in the movement. By carefully matching the movement across the two shots, filmmakers make it seem that the motion continues uninterrupted. For a real match on action, the action should begin in the first shot and end in the second shot. In the preliminary task we tried to edit a match-on-action, before you can see the girl approaching to the door and after you find her inside the room, the passage, between the first shot and the second one, is quite long. This create a problem on the continuity of the video. This make the preliminary task seems to be slow and hard to follow. But still understandable.

Over the Shoulder Shot/Shot Reverse Shot

Shot/Reverse Shot is an editing technique that defined as multiple shots edited together in a way that alternates characters, typically to show both sides of a conversation situation. There are multiple ways this can be accomplished, with common examples being over the shoulder shots, angled shots, left/right alternating shots, and often a combination of the three.We used this technique to show the dialogue between the two girls using a simple over the shoulder shot where, the girl is talking is framed instead you can see only the other girl’s shoulder. This gives to the audience the sensation to be in the shot as well.

Opening Sequence MatchOnAction

In the opening sequence we used again the match-on-action technique, this time our scene is in a car park where our character have to get off from the car, so we see before he opening the car door and then you see a close-up of is feet out of the car. Our skills of editing, from the preliminary task to this, are definitely improved, the cuts are fast and this doesn’t disturb the continuity.

180° Rule

The 180-degree rule of shooting and editing keeps the camera on one side of the action. As a matter of convention, the camera stays on one side of the axis of action throughout a scene; this keeps characters grounded compositionally on a particular side of the screen or frame, and keeps them looking at one another when only one character is seen onscreen at a time. The technique allows for an expansion of the frame into the unseen space offscreen. It is referred to as a rule because the camera, when shooting two actors, must not cross over the axis of action; if it does, it risks giving the impression that the actors' positions in the scene have been reversed.In our opening you can see the 180° rule when the car is going from the parking and then goes to the disco.