Planning Preliminary match cut excercise & Filming and Editing Preliminary Match Cut Excersize

I have decided to do these two blogs as one as they are both about the preliminary match cut:

Planning Preliminary match cut.

The rules for the match cut were that two people had to exchange a piece of dialogue whilst sitting on a table we had to obey the 180 degree rule which means we could not pan the camera by 180 degrees as the two people sitting on either end of the table did not swap places. We also had to include shot reverse shots into our piece this is when the camera jumps to one person and then to another which is mainly used for dialogue in soaps etc. Obviously we had to include a "match cut" which is when the camera cuts from one shot to another with the action carrying on.

First we had to make a story board so we could plan what would happen:





















We decided for a person to walk down the corridor and enter the room this is when we would have the match cut, with the person entering the door then showing them enter from the other side of the wall. We also decided to have two people on opposite sides of the table having a normal discussion.

Filming Preliminary Match Cut

After planning, we then of course had to film, filming took approximately an hour and a half as we took so many takes, this is when i realised that to get good footage, lots of scenes would be necessary. I was the camera woman, the only think i found hard was not using the zoom button, as getting closer to the characters was difficult.