Match on action.

As I said before one of the camera techniques that we had to include was the Match On Action.

What is match on action?

A match on action, a technique used in film editing , is a cut that connects two different views of the same action at the same moment in the movement. By carefully matching the movement across the two shots, filmmakers make it seem that the motion continues uninterrupted. For a real match on action, the action should begin in the first shot and end in the second shot. In the case of my film it would be the person opening the door and walking through, because we had to see her had on the door handle.

Here is an image to demonstrate this:

This is a YouTube clip to demonstrate how this works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Nx1o7fkVM

Preliminary Task

For our Preliminary Task we had to produce a short film witch had to include 3 different camera techniques and two characters who had to engage in a conversation. We had to film a person walking up to a door and opening it and then walking across the room and sitting down in front of another character and then they wound engage in a conversation. The 3 different camera techniques that we had to use were the, 180 degree rule, match on action and shot reverse shot. These techniques would make the piece run more smoothly and look more professional.  To start off with we had to plan what our story was going to be about, then we had to write a script and make a story board to help us when filming to know what scene came next. We had to go out and film the piece all by ourselves using a camera and tripod and then after we had finished the filming we had to edit the the clips we had to make our film using iMovie.