Preliminary film task

Preliminary film task

on Thursday last week, completed out preliminary film task:

out preliminary film task involved filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom he/she then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. we demonstrated several filming shots such as; match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.

Definition of match on action;

the definition; Cutting on action or matching on action refers to film editing and video editing techniques where the editor cuts from one shot to another view that matches the first shot's action. A common example is a man walking up to a door and reaching for the knob. 
we used the match on action technique to film a character walking into the room. 

definition of shot reverse shot; 

the definition; Shot reverse shot (or shot/countershot) is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character.
the rest of the group and i didn't use shot/reverse shot correctly as we only shot the first character, then changed the angel to focus on the second character. However we then did not change the camera angel back to the first character. 

180-degree rule;

definition; the 180 degree rule is a cinematography guideline that states that two characters in a scene should maintain the same left/right relationship to one another. when the camera passes over the invisible axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line and the shot becomes (what is called) a reverse angel. 

How i found the process/what would i do to improve if i were to do it again;

When set the task (to film shot clip) which had to include the three shot techniques (which are shown above) was proven rather difficult, considering i have never used a filming camera before. Moreover it was also rather challenging that we had to include the three techniques above, As i have also never heard of those before. However when in the process of completing the short clip, It was a good experience and it has also allowed me to get some knowledge on the filming industry. 

If i were to improve my preliminary task i would research in detail what techniques i had to use - for example i would research match on action, shot/reverse shot and 180-degree rule. as i have said previously i would also research how to achieve the best possible outcome using these specific techniques. Moreover i would also make a script so the actors within the film knew exactly what they were doing.