My Five Favourite Films

The Notebook - Romantic Drama.


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Mean Girls - Comedy Drama.

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Twilight I - Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller


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The Others - Horror, Mystery

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Hannah Montana The Movie - Comedy, Drama, Family, Music, Romance

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Preliminary Task - Plan.

Above is a plan of my preliminary task which i worked on with three other students: Gabriella Kingsley, Ellie Harris and Claudia Rollinson. We divided different jobs to complete; some of us filmed while other acted, some wrote the scripts and plans while others did the editing. Cameras 1-8 represent the different shot angles and sizes which we used in our Preliminary Task.

180 degree Rule - My Plan

This is my plan for the 180 degree rule which i drew up using the text book. This demonstrated that in order to keep the 180 degree rule the cameras have to stay on one side of the two people being film(by imagining a line dividing the room in two parts and the cameras never cross the 180 degree line,therefore the audience can keep track of the location of the characters. As you can see in my plan cameras 4 and 5 are on the left side of person a and b so it doesn't look like they're changing positions.

Preliminary Task

Shot Reverse Shot - Plan

Shot Reverse Shot.

This is a link which I found on You Tube of shot reverse shot. In this particular example, we see a shot of a woman in her house, next we see a man outside the house knocking on the door while the woman approaches the door and opens it. with the shot of the woman opening the door we see the man coming through the door. once both characters are in the room we see them having a conversation, as one character is talking we see a full view of him/her as well as seeing the other persons shoulder in the camera. from this we can see that the two characters are having a conversation with the technique of shot reverse shot. This video was one of the many examples of shot reverse shot.

180 Degree Rule

From this video which I have found on You Tube as well as other sources from class, such as text books I have learnt that the 180 degree rule is the key to keeping a conversation going in between two people without confusing the arrangements of location of them. The best way of remembering this is to imagine a bird's eye view over looking the whole room and then draw an imaginary line in the centre of the two people. If you're using more than one camera, the key is not to cross the 180 degree imaginary line so that the audience doesn't loose track of where the two people are located during the conversation.