Monday 26 September 2011

Preliminary Exercise - Continuity Task (so far!)

'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 s/he then exchanged a couple of line of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule'

Firstly, I have planned out my task on paper - noted down what I want to film.
This piece of film will set in my dining room at home, with natural lighting coming from the window and I will have my younger brother and older sister as my main characters. The main props that I will have my characters to use will be a school bag with a exercise book from school in it , a chair and a newspaper.

I have also created a storyboard of three pages long (four frames on each page), of what I want to film.
In the first frame, I'd have a close up on the brother's hand as he opens his bedroom door. This will be shot from his point of view. Here we'll have a sound of the door opening.



Within the second frame, we still see the shot from his point of view and we see the sister on the other side of the room reading a newspaper and she glances at him then back to her paper again.


In the third shot, we see from the sister's POV, reading the newspaper/ Then she hears the door opening.



The fourth frame, the sister glances at the brother briefly then back to her newspaper.


In the fifth frame, we see from the brother's POV walk towards the sister and then sits down on the chair opposite her.



The sixth frame, we see a 'two-shot' where we see both charaters on the side. The brother sits down and goes into his bag to get his exercise book out. He then starts looking through the book. The sound of paper rustling and bag zipping.



In the seventh frame, still in two-shot, the first piece of dialogue is spoken by the sister.
Sister: So, little brother, how was your day at school today?
[This shot will now change to the 180-degree rule shot, where the camera is angled at the siter as she speaks]



The eighth frame, we now go into the 180-degree rule and we see an angle of the brother as he replies: "Oh, nothing much, just the usual."


The ninth frame, we see from the brother's POV as we see the sister reply: "Ah, alright. So what have you got there?"



The tenth frame, the shot then goes to tow-shot and the brother says: "Just some English homework. Need to get it done by tomorrow. Oh, I forgotten my pen!"



In the eleventh frame, from the sister's POV, she sees the brother walk back to his room.


Finally, in the twelvth frame, we see the brother walk towards the camera into his bedroom and see the sister in the background continue reading her newspaper.





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