Second Practical, Planning

Our task was to film and edit a character opening a door, crossing the room and sitting in the chair opposite another character, within this film we had to include a demonstrated action shot and reverse shot, all of which had to go with the "180 degree rule".

We chose our own groups. I went with Becky, Ben and Jamie. We then came up with a step-by-step action plan of what our film will include. After brain storming with each other about what we should include we came to the decision of having our first shot with the camera on the fall and a someone walking towards it, then reversing the camera to show the person walking away towards the door. We thought this would be a useful shot because at first our idea was to have the person as a mystery person, so this made it affective, but also because its a shot we all agreed wasn't used a lot. Our next step was of the person opening the door. We thought to be different from the other groups, who were doing a shot of the person opening the door with their hand on the handle, we thought we'd do a shot of the handle moving, this would give make the audience feel tension to how the person was going to open it and who the person is opening it and why they're going into the room. We then had to do a shot of the two characters talking at a table, holding on to the idea of keeping it as a mystery person, we thought about doing over the shoulder shots, while keeping to the 180 degree rule, we also thought this would be effective because the shot will show what the character sees.