simon's homework preliminary task

In media studies we had to do a preliminary task which involved getting a video camera and filming some scenes based on what we wanted to do. What my group filmed was an affair which got found out. When we were filming this we tried to use some basic rules such as the 180 degree rule which is when we have to film inside an imaginary line going straight through a scene, If there was no 180 degree line this could make the viewer change there perspective on the scene based on where its being shot from. We did this rule quite good by always following it when we were filming different scenes. Another rule we did quite good at was where we filmed someone holding a handle and opening a door, and then the perspective of what it looked like from someone outside this is called match on action and we could have used this a bit more because it is vital to stick to this rule. I learnt a new camera shot too called shot reverse shot which is when the camera shows one character looking at another character and then the shot is flipped and you see it from the other side. We did not do a lot of this and this could have made our preliminary task better by having more conversations that use shot reverse shot.