Preliminary Task Evaluation

Our preliminary task is about a conversation in which person A and person B end up swapping items. The point of this task was to show continuity editing, match on action, shot/reverse shot, 180 degree rule and an eyeline match.

We did a match on action straight at the beginning when person A walks through a closed door and opens it, so we see the characters back when she opens the door, then we cut to her walking through the door on te inside of the room to see her shut the door.

We also had both of the characters have a conversation in which we used a shot/reverse shot. I think that we did end up doing this part correctly. Also we did not break the 180 degree rule so the film looks more realistic.

The eyeline match was of both of the characters looking at each other, I think that we could of improved this part as we could of made the eyeline match longer and used more cuts for it.

When we was editing it we realised that we did not do the continuity editing that well as when character A walks through the door there is nothing on the tables around character B, but then as character A walks out of the room there is a book on one of the tables and a bit of blue tack on the table. Again another issue with the continuity editing was that during the shot/reverse shot that after a while we did not notice the book randomly appearing during the shots.

What I would do for next time is that I hope to sort out the issues with the continuity editing and move the books that appeared in the shot and also I would like to make the eyeline match longer.