Harrison, Molly, Danny and I were given a camera for the first time. We did our preliminary task, which we had to use: the 180 dagree rule, match on action and shot reverse shot. We did a simple scene and used all three of them.
The first timewe did it, we noticed that part of our heads were chopped off in the picture, so the second time we made sure the camera was still and our bodies were in the shot.
We used shot reverse shot when Harrison and I were talking at a table. The camera was behind one of our shoulders then behind the other persons shoulder. It gives the effect of seeing what that character is basically seeing.
Match on action could be used when showing someone is picking something up. For example the camera would be focused on the object and then someone would pick it up instead of watching the hand go down and pick the object up. In our scene we included it when Harrison picked up a phone, we had the camera focused on the phone and near the start we focus on the door handle when Harrison walked in.
The 180 dagree rule was used when Harrison and I were talking at the table, the camera was kept the same side the whole time. The 180 dagree is so you keep the camera to one side, to do this you could have an imaginary line, 180 dagree! and you cant stand a film over the line.
We also added a low angle shot to make me look bigger as the character I was supposed to be was big and powerful (the boss). Low angle shots are used to show exactly that.
Another shot we added was extreme close up shot, this is to show how someone is feeling in their facial expressions. In our scene we had an extreme close up on Harrisons eyes when he walked in and saw me (the boss) by having this shot on Harrison it allowed the viewer to see he was worried and surprised.
Aswell as that we included panning. This is used when someone is moving. The camera has to be stationary and follow the subject which is moving. In our scene we used it when Harrison was approaching the door.
The last shot we did was a long shot. A long shot gets a lot of things in the picture, in our case we used it when Harrison and I were saying good bye.
