Preliminary exercise

We have been asked to carry out a preliminary exercise in order to get us used to using the cameras and to help us practice the different angles etc.
What we have been asked to do is to film and edited a short piece of work which will involve a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down on a chair opposite another character. The two characters will exchange a few words.

In this exercise we had to demonstrate these four things:-
Continuity
Match on action
Shot/reverse shot
The 180-degree rule

This is what they mean: -

Continuity: - this is making sure that everything is the same though out the whole piece. Examples of this are making sure that you wear the same clothes though out the piece and use the same props.

Match on action: - this is making sure that after editing that the shots fit together and the action carries on over the editing.

Shot/reverse shot: - this is getting both the reactions in the conversation. Wikipedia has a good explanation “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 assumes that they are looking at each other.”

The 180-degree rule: - this is making sure that you always film the two people on the same side every time so that they look like they are on opposite sides and that they satay in the same place. I looked on the Internet again on wikipedia at there definition “The 180° rule is a basic film editing guideline that states that two characters (or other elements) in the same scene should always have the same left/right relationship to each other. If the camera passes over the imaginary axis connecting the two subjects, it is called crossing the line. The new shot, from the opposite side, is known as a reverse angle.”