180 degree rule

The 180 degree rule is very simple to understand, what it means is that their is a barrier you cannot cross when filming such as not going beyond a 180 degree line. Because when there are characters on set and you cross the 180 degree the characters change side which can confuse the audience.

For example football is a good example of this as it is the most important rule when filming football, if you do cross the 180 degree line in football it will confuse the viewers watching it being filmed(television) as the teams change sides; the picture above helps explain this theory.

Prelim task evaluation

In our prelim task was myself, Laura Walton and Paige lee edmunds, we each had a role in this prelim task; mine and Laura's were to act and Paige was to film.
Before we had started recording our video we first began to thought process what we wanted, needed to do for our short preliminary task. And what we thought of is an exchange where a character would come to a location and collect an item, we wanted this as it was very simple and easy when capturing the shots needed.

In our thought processing time we also wrote the specific shots we wanted at each point; our first shot is a high angle from the edge of the room we wanted this because it can help portray a CCTV camera watching the character, the second shot is a point of view shot of the character opening a door and to fit the criteria were we had to have 'match on match action' and to make sure we had a medium shot of the character openning/closing the door.

For the next part of our video we begin the conversation between the two characters, and again we had to have a shot included because of it being in the criteria this is 'over the shoulder shot'; were we decided to have the shot tight as possible to capture a really good 'over the shoulder shot'. During filming we came across difficulties as in our location there was not enough space to fit all our equipment such as the tri-pod, so we decided to shoot the film without. by doing this in each of our scenes we had to take as many shots as we can just in case human error produces a bad shot for example the persons hand shaking. The next stage of the prelim task was the continuity editing, this is were you can edit the video in the edit suite, you can apply music and special effects.

Prelim Task- information

For our prelim task we had to capture a small video clip but make sure we follow the criteria,
our criteria was:

Match on action
For example in your video clip if the actor has a glass in his hand then the next shot he doesn't, but the next shot the glass has come back; try to avoid carrying out this action

Shot reverse Shot
This technique is used in soap opera such as 'Eastenders' where the is a shot of one character, then other then back to the same character

180 rule
Cameras at football matches use this technique etc.

In my group there is Laura, paige and myself, we came up with the idea of a funny sketch scene called 'The exchange' it is a very simple scene which is why we decided on it, the type of shots we had to include is the criteria from above and also tracking, panning, over the shoulder, high angles, low angles and a wormseye shot.

Independant research - Quentin tarantino

Quentin tarantino is a very successful film director, screen writer, producer, cinematographer and acto. When he began in the 90's he used nonlinear sequences to his films and a need for violence which is still containted in his flims toda. His films include:

Reservoir dogs (1992)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Kill bill (volume 1, 2003) (volume 2, 2004)
Death proof (2007)
Inglorious bastard (2009)

Quentin tarantino has recieved many awards for his films such as Academy, Golden Globe, BAFTA and
Palme d'Or. Quentin tarantino was born in Knowxville, Tennessee, he attended Narbonne High school in habour city, California for his freshman year before dropping out of school at age 15, Tarantino once said "When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films".

Tarantino has also been in televison and directed the fifth season finale hit show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation; tarantino has also directed an epsiode of ER called 'motherhood'.

Past student examples - End of the line

End Of The Line from BDC on Vimeo.

Analysis

This short film is very clever and precise for the short clip, but the many camera shots and angles used deliver a really good thriller video. One of the interesting parts to this video is the continuous shots and angles when the character is walking down the street, this creates a lot of tension which is very effective for a thriller video; the creators have also used movement of the camera such as the tracking movement when the character is walking which creates someone following and also engages the audience because it can seem as if were are following this character. The video also includes non-digetic music, this music helps to create tension for the increase in volume to show where tension is at a peak.