Pretty Little Post-it- Preliminary Task & Evaluation

Evaluation of Pretty Little Post-It

What is the 180 Degree Rule? 

The 180 Degree rule is the rule that states that two characters in a scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If you don't follow the 180 Degree Rule, or break it it disorients the audience. If you break the 180 line, a character who was originally facing left in a scene will appear as if facing right. 

What is a match on action?
A match on action is where an action is portrayed from a certain shot then cut to replay the action shown in the first scene from a different camera angle, this is done through editing techniques. 

What is a eye-line match?

An eye-line match is an editing technic of which is when a audience may see what the character on screen is seeing for example when a certain scene is portrayed to the viewers from the angle at which the character is looking.

What is a shot-reverse-shot?

A Shot reverse shot is a technique where one character is shown looking at another character and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character, moreover a shot reverse shot would demonstrate when person A, looks at person B, then when person B looks at person A.

Describe how you incorporated the shots above into your final film?

180 Degree Shot- We made sure that during the opening scene of the film when our character was opening their book to reveal a note we flipped to an over the shoulder shot to shown the audience the note, when we flipped to an over the shoulder shot we made sure we used the same angle/the same side of the character to avoid disorienting the audience and to ensure we obeyed the 180 degree rule.

Examples of the 180 degree rule from our Prelim

Match On Action- We used this shot when we swapped the angle of the shot and replayed the action of taking the note out of a book. This was just after our character discovered the note (as shown in pictures above) when performing the match on action we ensured that when we replayed the shot in the new angle it followed the previous 180 degree rule in order to prevent disorientating the audience.

Eye line Shot- This shot is used when the two characters meet one another during the passing of the note towards the end of the film. We as the audience/viewers see the main characters eye-line view of which in this scene is the view of the other character.

Shot-reverse-shot- We failed to make a shot reverse shot our prelim film. However we fully understand what the shot involves.

How did the filmmaking process go, in terms of filming shots from the storyboard and filming around the collage?

The film process was overall easier than expected as we had all the resources needed for our film e.g. an appropriate school setting coincides with our storyline and plot as well as the appropriate equipment to create our shots. However, the problem we did encounter was having some people (unplanned) walking in/out of our shots and filming causing us to have to re-do the shots.

What did you learn about video editing on Adobe Premiere?

I have personally learnt that Adobe Premiere is a video editing resource that allows multiple adjustments to be made to a film this includes not only its appearance and order of shots but also the quality and audio of the film, it offers many options e.g. lots of font choices for texts and subtitles yet also has the resources to make a more complex edit of a film by allowing more complex options during the editing such as editing the duration and speed of shots as well as having the option of adding transactions between shots. This means that Adobe Premiere has the potential to create a professional looking film.