Preliminary task

Here is our completed preliminary task. You can tell it incorporates all the specified technical aspects: Mise en scene, 180 degree rule, Match on action. We also included some dialogue. This 40 second piece took us 90 minutes to make. This showed us that in the production of the real thing time management will be a large factor to consider! From this task me and I'm sure my team mates found that the amount of time we put into filming and what we gat back (in terms of length of film) is relatively out of proportion. We shall have to manage our time sensibly and make sure we anticipate the time we spend on producing this opening sequence. Before coin this task I researched the technical aspects we had to include in great detail. Match on action I already knew, but in order to have a clear understanding of how personally to use it I had to do some research. I found that films such as Alain Resnais's surreal Muriel ou Le temps d'un retour, played with this technique. Moreover, 180 degree rule I also researched and found that it is a method that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. In addition it was been a common feature in films such as the Shining 'Bathroom scene' and English presenters Ant and DEc always use this when presenting with 'Ant' on the right and 'Dec' on the left. Lastly Shot reverse Shot i found to be the funnest one to film and edit. The definitions states: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. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer assumes that they are looking at each other.