Preliminary Task Research

Preliminary Task Research

180 degree rule

Camera position and eye line when filming a scene using separate shots, it’s important that people understand where everything in the scene is. Need to make sure that when the shots are edited together, the characters are still looking in the same direction. To make sure this works, you need to imagine a line between the two characters. This is called the axis of action. The camera cannot move more than 180 degrees around the character.

Match on Action

Refers to film editing and video editing techniques where the editor cuts from one shot to another view that matches the first shots action. Cutting on action/matching on action gives the impression of continuous time when watching the edited film. The entrance in the second shot must match the screen direction and motive rhythm of the exit in the first shot.

Shot-Reverse-Shot

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. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other. It is a feature of the ‘classical’ Hollywood styles of continuity editing, which deemphasizes transitions between shots. It is an example of an eye line match.