Preliminary task

For the preliminary task we had to film a 180 degree rule, a match on action, an eye line match, shot-reverse-shot and a dialogue exchange between the 2 characters.

In filmmaking, the 180° rule is a basic guideline that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line. The new shot, from the opposite side, is known as a reverse angle. We did a very short movie where the 2 characters were between Ellie and me. I'm the teacher and Ellie is a student there is handing some homework in. When she is giving the homework to me you see it from her side, but with a cut it's a close up and thats the match on action. 

An eyeline match is a film editing technique. It's based on the premise that the audience will want to see what the character on the screen is seeing. The eyeline match begins with a character looking at something you can't see on the screen yet, then there will be a cut on the thing or person which the character from before was looking at. For example, a man is looking off-screen to his left, and then the film cuts to a television that he is watching.

Shot-reverse-shot is a shot at something or someone, then a shot at another thing or another person and then back at the first thing or person again.