Assignment Brief

For our AS media studies our brief is to film and edit a character opening a door crossing a room and sitting in a chair opposite, another characters with whom he/she then exchange a couple of lines of dialogue.

The task we have to demonstrate:- 

• match on action
• shot/reverse shot
• 180 - degree rule

Our film should be about 12-15 shots long.

Match on action

Match on action is when something happens the there is cut during a scene then it must  match the same piece of action that is going on at the time.

Shot/ reverse shot

Shot reverse shot is when a character is shown then there is another character looking back at the first character. In this way it looks like they are looking back and for to each other.

180- degree rule
The 180 degree rule is a rule where it is important not to cross the Line of vision between two characters during filming.

Time Plan