Preliminary Task Evaluation

The 180 degree rule is where there is an imaginary line between 2 actors and you as the camera person can not cross that line. If you do cross the line it doesn't make sense to the audience that are watching the film. I made sure in my film that I didn't do this and that it made sense when we was filming it. A match on action is a series of shots that show an action, the first shot is a long/medium shot of the start of the action. The second shot is a close up of the action happening and the last shot is a long/medium shot of after the action has happened. I did this in my film because I had someone passing a phone to someone else and there was a close up when the phone was actually being passed. The eye line rule is where there are 2 people that are talking to each other but they are not necessarily next to each other. This is normally used in a phone call between two different actors, this has to follow the 180 degree rule or it doesn't make sense. I did this in my film by having two actors talk to each other on the phone. In my film we didn't do it as well as I wanted because one of the actors was on a phone and the other one wasn't, this means that it didn't look as good as I intended.

In the filming process of my film it was easy to film the shots that I wanted off my storyboard and it was easy to use the location that I wanted as well. In the filming I managed to use the 180 degree rule, a match on action and the eye line rule. I also used a range of camera angles and movements in my film. To make my film as smooth as possible I used a Tripod, this meant that i could get a better range of shots and when i liked the position of a camera angle i could leave the camera there and sort other things out.

I edited my film in Adobe Premiere Pro CS5, This is a good software to use for editing because it has a large range of features that can be used to make your film look even better. In the editing process i learned how to use the green screen functionality in the software and I used it in my film to make an exposition at the end.