Continuity Task

Our task involved: filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match on action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule.


We had two members of our class to be in our film. They were Daniel Riman and Miss Bennet. The whole plot of the film would be about Miss Bennet telling Daniel that he is the top achiever in Drama.


We started off with the camera pointing a the door. Then Miss Bennet would come in.She will then sit down on a chair opposite Daniel. This would cut to a medium shot of Miss Bennet talking. This will cut to a medium shot of Daniels reaction (zoom in to his face). Then it will cut to an over the shoulder shot starting on Miss Bennett right shoulder and shifting to her left shoulder. It will then cut to a medium shot of Daniel looking for his mum on his phone contacts (zoom in to his phone). Cut to a close up shot of his phone (zoom in to mum). Finally this cuts to another medium shot of Daniel talking to his mum.