Paula Averkamp Media Studies

I really enjoyed the preliminary exercise because it was a great start into the subject. I personally did not know the two boys who were kind enough to be part of our task, but as we got to the sauna and explained what they had to do, we were all laughing and enjoying the exercise. At first it was weird because there was someone else in the room and no one really knew how to start and what to say. We started with a match-on-action where Matt opened the door which was a good way to start because no one had to say anything and we all warmed up a bit. We did not think of a possible plot or conversation the lessons before and just wanted to get a normal conversation between two boys, so one of them started talking about dropping one of his subjects and this way we had a great and real plot. I brought my own camera, we got given a tripod and luckily I had some experience with filming so I took over the filming whilst Milly did the directing and told the boys what to do. It did take us a few shots until no one was laughing but in the end we had all we needed.

Using the editing program was a bit harder. At some point we had to restart our project because we cutted some clips wrong and it was all just a mess. After leaving it for a few days I finished it real quick and it was a lot easier after getting used to the program.

 If I had the chance to do the task again I would have thought of a better conversation. This way it would have been easier to convince the boys of participating in our task. Also I we broke the 180-degree rule which I would take care of the next time.



The 180 degree rule describes the picture of two people sitting in front of each other creating an imaginary line. This way the viewer has a better understanding for the environment around the main conversation and can be a part of the situation.

Match on action is an editing technique in which one shot cuts to another shot, like a person walking through a door and being showed opening the door from behind, and opening the door from the front. This way the same action is viewed in different ways and it is easier to draw the attention to a certain action.

 

Shot/reverse shot contains separate and closer shots of the people to show their expression and emotions. The camera moves from face to face in separate shots whilst keeping the rule of being on the same side to show that the person is still looking at the person opposite.