Evaluation | Preliminary Task Progression

I feel we have come a long way since our preliminary task, mainly in our ability to edit our shots together more smoothly and in our choice of camera angles. In our preliminary, match on action was a focus point especially when the character opens the door. Although this was roughly achieved, the way the shots were put together was not as smooth as we would have liked. During our production though and throughout our editing we had a little bit more experience so in our final edit of our opening scene character actions were bridged more smoothly from shot to shot.

The 180 degree rule was not kept to well in our preliminary task, with the camera jumping from one side of the character to the other side in subsequent shots. This makes it confusing for the audience. In our opening scene we made sure to keep to the rule and we think we kept to the rule in all situations, bar one where we were borderline over the imaginary line. This is the moment where we have the 2 shots of the train one after the other near the beginning of the scene. In other moments particularly when our characters speak to each other we kept to the rule. It was also in our dialogue between characters that we used shot/reverse shot to show our characters reactions to what the other was saying.