Preliminary Task

•         Does your film use continuity editing so that the sequence of events are clear and easily understood by the viewer?

Yes it does, the clips are edited together correctly in chronological order so the plot line can be followed.

•         Have you followed the directions in the brief?  (A character opens a door, crosses a room and sits down in a chair opposite another character.  An exchange of dialogue occurs.)

We have a character opening a door crosses the room to the other character, but they do not sit down, even though they are opposite each other. Dialogue is exchanged between the characters, and then they both leave.

•         Have you used match-on-action? 

We have used match-on-action when one of the characters hands over the envelope the other character opens it in a close up of the hands.

•         Can you explain what a match-on action involves?

Match-on-action involves one thing happening in one shot and then something happening because of that shot happening, e.g. someone opening a door, and the next shot would be someone walking through the door and the door might close behind the character.

•         Have you used shot/reverse shot?

Unfortunately, we forgot to use shot/ reverse shot because when we finished all the dialogue we thought we were done.

•         Can you explain what shot/reverse shot involves?

Shot/ reverse shot is where the camera catches a line of dialogue and then swaps angle to focus on the other person reading a line of dialogue, and then back to the original shot.

•         Did you observe the 180-degree rule?

We did use the 180-degree rule in our piece.

•         Can you explain the 180-degree rule?

The 180-degree rule is where the camera does not cross a certain line when filming, they use this rule so that people are not confused as to which character is which.

•         What role did you play in the making of the preliminary task?  (e.g.  filming, acting, editing, equipment organisation etc.)

During the making of the film I was the man behind the camera, and after the filming, I helped editing the clips together.

•         How would you assess your contribution to the group?

I would say that I contributed well in my areas, e.g.  I set the camera up where I wanted to get as many shots as possible, even though I forgot about shot/ reverse shot.

•         What have you learned from the process of making your preliminary film?

I have learned what shots that you should use when filming a piece, also I learnt how to use Adobe Premier Pro when editing clips together.

William Taylor

Review Questions

·         Does your film use continuity editing so that the sequence of events are clear and easily understood by the viewer?

Yes, our film runs smoothly through good editing and doesn’t have any gaps or scenes that drag on.

·         Have you followed the directions in the brief?  (A character opens a door, crosses a room and sits down in a chair opposite another character.  An exchange of dialogue occurs.)

We followed the brief and completed everything asked except for a character/s sitting down on a chair.

·         Have you used match-on-action? 

No unfortunately we didn’t use this

·         Can you explain what a match-on action involves?

It is where there is a skip in a scene where it shows before and after, i.e. someone goes to hit someone and you do not see the action, but straight after.

·         Have you used shot/reverse shot?

No we accidently didn’t do this

·         Can you explain what shot/reverse shot involves?

The camera would switch from 2 angles depending on the person talking.

·         Did you observe the 180-degree rule?

Yes we followed the rule

·         Can you explain the 180-degree rule?

This is where you film without going over a line by surrounding the scene too much.

·         What role did you play in the making of the preliminary task?  (e.g.  Filming, acting, editing, equipment organisation etc.)

I was a character in the video (the man who hires the hitman), I also helped with the editing and coming up with the script and filming ideas as well as creating the blog

·         How would you assess your contribution to the group?

I have contributed quite a lot to the group much like the other members; we have all put in a lot of effort into getting it done

·         What have you learned from the process of making your preliminary film?

It is not as easy as it seems and a better plan would have been better so we were more organised and possibly got better ideas.

This has been very good to see what we have done right and what we haven’t so we can improve greatly for the main task in my opinion.

Danny Watson

Preliminary Video

Shot List

Establishing shot of surroundings, man two standing on his own
Close up of door handle turning and door opening
Low angle shot when man one meets man two
Two shot when Man two hands over the envelope

Man one: so what do we have here?

Medium shot when Man one opens the envelope
Over the shoulder shot when man one asks questions about the target

Man two: That’s your target.

Shot reverse shot during dialogue

Man 1: I can see that!*pauses* so who has he pissed off?Man two:  That doesn’t matter, all you need to know is he is wanted dead, and it’s your job to make sure that happens.Man one: Alright, no need to get so defensive. I’m going to go and plan what to do. *walks off*

Man one leaves tilted frame plus low angle shot, which tracks him, walking away.

by danny daniel and will

A BAD DAY L

Today lessons went to waste due to the fact that our main group member (Danny) was not in, and he had our login for our blogger account, unfortunately we couldn’t call or text and therefore was stuffed on what to do as our preliminary idea included 3 people and we only had 2.

We have learnt from this experience and will in future make sure we have each other’s numbers and all the details for our blogger account.

By Dan and Will L

These are the different camera shots and our examples of each:

Extreme Close-up

Big Close-up

Close-up

Medium Close-up

Medium Shot

Medim Long Shot

Long Shot

Two Shot

Over the shoulder Shot

Interviwee shot



moving shot



high angle shot

low angle shot



 by Danny, Daniel and Will

Preliminary Task:

In our preliminary task our group had to come up with an idea that wouldn't be too long on film and had to include, someone opening a door and few short sentences of dialogue. This is our idea:
The hitman receives a call to go pick up information on a target. He leaves and gets his info from a guy (meeting place: In 2nd man’s house / office). Hitman tries to find out why the target must die, but the 2^nd man is insistent on not telling him why. Hitman looks suspicious and leaves.

by Danny, Daniel and Will