Camera and editing Techniques

During our film i was using the 180 degree rule, this is where i am not allowed to cross an imaginary line going through a circle so there i would be on one side of the action the whole time and i used this when recording when we were doing our shot reverse shot.

Shot reverse shot, i used this shot when our dialogue came in, when doing Connors dialogue we kept the camera still and made him say all his lines and we did the same for Zahir and at the end when we came to editing it worked perfectly as it made like the camera was there the whole time and never moved but you just couldn't see it but it was us really just getting all the dialogue done before moving the camera.

We used a track from when Connor is walking across the walkway to the door and how we did this was just by simply following the action (Connor) walking to the door and this was simply all we had to do for that shot, but you are not allowed to move the camera up or down or diagonally it was just a simply left to right but tracking Connor.

When editing we used cuts about 95% of the time, cuts are really important as they can do many things from seeing some ones point of view or changing the scene entirely in our work we used both, when Connor spoke we change to Connors face and the same for Zahir but when we had to go into a different room we used cuts to get rid of the boring stuff and make the film look as realistic as possible.

We used rule of thirds in every scene as this is the one rule that can never ever be broken as it keeps all the focus on the person you are recording so at no point in our film we didn't use this, the rule of thirds is where you keep the person you are recording eyes a third of the way down the screen.

We also used match on action in our film when Connor was opening the door, we did this by recording one side of the door being opened all the way and than done the same on the other side and we just simply cut out the bit from where we wanted the door to be opened from in the previous shots and than we put both shots together to make the door look like it was being opened all in one making a smooth transition.