Preliminary Exercise

Today we recorded our preliminary exercise and edited it on Final Cut. I was in a group with Amber, Ita and Sophie. Our idea was to record a job interview and I was interviewing Ita.

We learnt how to use the 180 degree rule which is when recording a conversation between two people you have to imagine there is a straight line down middle of the two people. The camera must stay on either the left or the right of the imaginary line to prevent the people looking like they've been flipped round. You start buy filming the conversation from over the shoulder of one of the two people and then film it from over the other persons  shoulder.

We also learnt about Match-On-Action. We used this when we were filming Ita walking through the door into the interview room. What we did was record Ita going up to the door and opening the door handle and then went inside the room and recorded Ita walking in from inside. This way it looks like we have managed to record Ita only once but from two different angles.