PRELIMINARY EXERCISE

Continuity task: filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room, sitting down in a chair opposite another character with whom she/he exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180% rule.


For todays lesson in Media Studies, we had to do a practical. We were put into a group of four, in our group we had to choose between five different scenarios, which ranged between 'Antiques Roadshow' to 'Australian border control'. Our group chose Antiques Roadshow and got a genie type lamp for a prop for the exercise. In our exercise we had to follow the rules of the task. These included: filming a character open a door, crossing a room, sit across another character and for the characters to exchange a few lines of dialogue, and then edit it all after. For our piece we decided to have a businessman come to the show with his antique and tell the expert how amazing the object is. Whilst this is happening the expert is examining the object and eventually tells the man it is not worth much. This then leads for the hopeful man to storm off. During this scene we shot from different angles involving panelling across the room, close up of facial features and expressions, over the shoulder shots when he opposite character was talking, and close up of the antique prop. We then finished the lesson by editing the piece. 

Here is our final piece.