Match On Action

Match on Action

'Match on action is a technique of filming used in many sorts of films. It consists of connecting 2 shots together in which a character finishes off an action in the second shot that was started in the first one, for example a clip of a character walking through a door in which he opens the door being filmed from behind then the clip cuts to him walking through from the other one.'

It's 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.

 This is an example of match on action in use:



 

This is an example of match on action in use in our film:

180 - Degree Rule

180 Deagree Rule

"In film making, the 180-degree rule is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene. An imaginary line called the axis which connects the characters and by keeping the camera on one side of this axis for every shot in the scene, the first character will always be frame right of the second character, who is then always frame left of the first. If the camera passes over the axis, it is called jumping the line or crossing the line."




This is an example of the 180 degree rule in use:

In our example of 180 degree rule (below), we've included the character walking round to the passenger side of the car, to establish what side of the car he is on, then the shot-reverse-shot abides by the 180 degree rule, as it shows the blond haired passenger on the left side of the car and camera, and the dark haired driver on the right side of the car and camera, so the audience don't get confused.

This is an example in the 180 degree rule in use in our film:

Shot-Reverse-Shot

Shot- Reverse-Shot

A shot/reverse/shot is....

"A film technique wherein one character is shown looking (often off-screen) at another character, and then the other character is shown looking "back" at the first character. Since the characters are shown facing in opposite directions, the viewer unconsciously assumes that they are looking at each other."

-Bordwell, David; Thompson, Kristin (2006). Film Art: An Introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill.

To establish a shot-reverse-shot you would usually have a two shot of two characters , then an over the shoulder shot of character A, then an over the shoulder shot of character B, then after that, as you have established where the characters are and who they are talking to, you can the just do face shots of them talking.

Here is an example of a shot-reverse-shot in use: 

Here is an example of a shot-reverse-shot in use in our film:

Film

Script

Preliminar Task Script by reedsmedia

Shot types

 

 

 

 

New Script

 

Old Script

Preliminary Task

Our preliminary task, is a continuity task, where we have to film a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with which he then exchanges couple of lines of dialogue with.
In our task we have to use a match on action, shot/revers shot and use the 180-degree rule. We have created short little clips, explaining what each of these is and how we used them in our preliminary film, to show our understand of them.
As a group we have chosen to stick to our genre for our main task and apply it to this task, so that we get a feel for the "gangster" genre, and so we will see if we would like to carry on this for our final film.

Today we will be starting to shoot our preliminary task, we have chosen the setting of Oxshott station as our location

This is a picture of Oxshott station:














          

              But we filmed down in the far end of the car park, which looks like this:

This is the car park bay that we filmed in:

















We have picked out 3 drama students (Scarlet, Elliot and Chris) to play our characters:

       Scarlett                                                           Elliot                                                         Chris


Our plot is, you see a man (Elliot) dumping a woman's body (Scarlet) into the boot of the car, he then gets into the passenger side of the car and turns to his boss (Chris), they exchange conversation about kidnapping the woman and her being important to their project, the passenger asks about the project, the boss won't tell him, the passenger then goes to leave the car, but before he can, his boss shoots him and drives off.

Genres

This is the brainstorm of  the genres we wanted to choose from. We chose gangster out of all the others.

Out of sight Pictures

We've decided to come up with a Production company name - 'Out of Sight Pictures', this is our brainstorm for what we would like our logo to look like

 

This is what we've decided to make our logo look like, we first took a picture at school, then used special effects to add the blurryness and words. We've gone for the creepy look, so it sort of matches our genre

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Introduction

The aim of out project is to do the opening sequence and titles for a new fiction film, it will have to last for a maximum of two minutes. We have been split into two groups, my groups consists of Harvey Sayer, Jack Casey and myself (Caitlin Dear - Fitzpatrick). Our first task is to research film genres and then once picked the genre we would like to do, we have to watch films within that genre,  to identify the textual analysis that goes along with the genre. The genres we were deciding between were: Documentaries, Drama, Romantic comedies, Crime and Gangster.The genre my group have decided upon is "Gangster", we picked this because we felt that there a lot  of material that we could work with and explore.

Our first task is to do a short film to show our understanding of shot types we should use and different camera techniques.