Preliminary Task.

The Preliminary Task

The preliminary task is to film and edit 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. My group and I have been exchanging ideas such as a talkshow interview, but in the end we have decided on a interview for a job where the Interviewee is late and is running to get to the interview.

Definitions of new media terms: 

180 degree rule - a basic guideline that states two characters in the same scene should have the same relationship. You must not cross the 180 degree line from both characters as it can look un-natural and disorienting.

Match on action - is a film editing technique where the editor cuts from one shot to another view that matches the first shot's action.

Continuity Editing - smoothing over the illogical discontinuity of the editing process and to establish a natural and logical similarity between shots.

Shot/Reverse Shot - a shot type where one character is shown looking at another character and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character, often used when two characters are talking to each other.