OCR Media Studies - G321 - Evaluation Activity 7

Looking back at your preliminary task (the continuity editing task), what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?

From the preliminary task where we looked at the ‘180 degree rule’ and ‘match on action’ to our final piece Viktim; we have made progress on which camera shots work best and apprpriate editing tools.

In our preliminary task, we focused on the 180 degree rule which is mainly used by directors to show a conversation and to see the facial reactions between each person. In our preliminary task we used the 180 degree rule to show the conversation between Josh (blue jumper) and Mark (green t-shirt) Mark is angry and in the screen shots above you can see Marks "annoyance" and then using the 180 degree rule  we switch to an ‘over-the-shoulder’ shot where we see Josh's unphased face. He isn’t intimidated by Mark.

In our final 2 minute opening, we used the 180 degree rule to show a conversation between the two actors above. The main use of this shot was to show the facial expressions between the two; Jasmine (Red hair) was cheerful and trying to be comforting, whereas Amelia (Blonde hair) is emotionless, she’s still mourning over the loss of her brother.



Another shot we used in our preliminary task was the match on action. Mark opened the door and we cut to a shot of him entering the room. We did the same with our two minute opening; they both open the door and we jump to a shot of them coming out. The quick jump from the shots tells the audience that this happened straight after, almost like a continuous shot. It also establishes a change in scene, they left the comfort of the house and are about to go outside into the open which also seems to happen at night (A typical horror cliché) they were edited in this way to show pace in time.