Preliminary Task

Preliminary Exercise

Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule. 

Shot Order

• Establishing shot
• Mid shot of her outside the house
• close up of her face full of confusion
• Mid shot- she pushes open door
• Tracking shot see's her enter the house (camera is transferred through window, displaying Emily in the house.) Noises in the background- Shuffling
• Over the shoulder shot as Emily looks at the mess the robber has created within her house
• Out of the corner of her eye she see shadow, quickly pans at canted angle to moving object and back quickly.
• Tracking shot follows Emily down the hallway form over the shoulder shot - perspective looking around, see's robber behind fridge.
• Janice (robber) - tilt from her feet upwards to her face.
• two shot of both looking shocked
• medium close up of Emily saying "Who are you?"
• Shot reverse shot for dialogue
• Emily is punched in the face in a medium close shot and a tracking shot of the hand moving before impact
• close up of Emily on the floor
• POVE shot from canted angle on the floor as her vision begins to fade - kitchen floor - slowly loses focus - impairment shot.
• Tracking shot from Emily's face, through the corridor and out onto the drive as theirf runs away.

Shot Filming Order

EXT Shots filmed first

• Establishing long shot - First shot
• Mid shot of her outside the house
• close up of her face - confusion
•  Mid shot as she pushes open door
• Tracking shot from Emily's face, through the corridor and out onto the drive as the their runs away - last shot

INT Hallway shots

• Over the shoulder shot as Emily looks at the mess the robber has created within her house
• Out of the corner of her eye she sees as shadow, quickly pans at canted angle to moving object and back quickly
• Emily is punched in the face in a medium close up shot and a tracking shot of the hand moving before impact
• Clos up of Emily on the floor
• POV shot from canted angle on the as her vision begins to fade - kitchen floor - slowly loses focus - impairment  shot.
• Tracking shot follow Emily down the hallway from over the shoulder perspective looking around

INT Kitchen shots

• Janice(robber)tilt from her feet upwards to her face.   

• Medium close up of Emily “Who are you?"

• Shot reverse shot for dialogue.

• Two shot of robber and Emily