All the Camera Shots and Angles

Definitions

 Continuity is a system of cutting used to maintain continuous and clear narrative action by following a set of rules.

Match on action is a technique of filming used in many sorts of films. It consists of connecting 2 shots together in which a character finishes off an action in the second shot that was started in the first one, for example a clip of a character walking through a door in which he opens the door being filmed from behind then the clip cuts to him walking through from the other one.

Shot Reverse shot is two shots edited together that alternate characters, used mostly in for conversation.Usually characters in one frame look left and others and in the following frame look right.


180 degree rule is the angle between any two consecutive shots should not exceed 180 in order to maintain spatial relationships between people and objects in any given sequence of shots.

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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.

Main task: the

titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes. All video and audio material must be original, produced by the candidate(s), with the exception of music or audio effects from a copyright-free source.