Preliminary exercise

As practise for our film openings, in class we have done a preliminary exercise which consists of filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room, sitting down opposite another character and exchanging dialogue/conversation with them, which demonstrates match on action a shot/reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.

I worked in a group with Annie Powrie in order to complete this. We decided to choose the idea of two characters talking and jokingly arguing about a TV show spoiler from the series 'The Walking Dead' as its light-hearted and we felt it was good for practise.

This was our first real opportunity to use the cameras to film, practise shooting at different angles under the 180 degree rule, understand how it is working with actors and to use editing software in post production.

Below is the finished product