For the preliminary task, I have to film a 30second short film. In this film a character has to walk in through a door to find another character in the scene. The two characters have to take a seat and have a conversation.
There are two rules which we have to follow; Match-on-action and 180 degree rule.
Match-on-action: With this rule you have to use continued editing, which embeds cuts in the middle of the action. This helps to hide the cuts. An example would be if someone hears a door handle move, looks at it and then in the next shot another person is in the scene. The audience automatically assumes the person walked through the door although we didn't actually see it.
180 Degree: In this rule, the camera has to be fixed on an imaginary axis. The camera can move anywhere on one side of this axis and only within the half circle which is formed from this axis. For example, if two people are having a conversation and the camera is looking at the side of them, (man on left, woman on right), the camera can only shoot footage where the man is on the left.
My footage idea is the a woman is in a hospital waiting room waiting for news on her husbands operation. The nurse comes out and starts to tell the woman the man has survived, but he is on life support and only has two weeks left to live. The woman is left in an awkward position of deciding whether or not to turn the life support off...
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