24/09/15 Studio Lesson

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In this lesson, we learned some basic aspects of the 180 Degree Rule and filmed a couple of short sequences using the Canon 5D.

The 180 Degree rule is basically making sure that the camera always stay on one side of the shot (within 180 degrees) to prevent confusion to the audience on directions of the action and to prevent the scene from being totally random- the character that's on the right always stays on the right and the character that is on the left side stays on the left side

We filmed a couple of short sequences in our small groups. The first short sequence was just a simple sequence of a character walking into the scene, picked up the phone, checked the phone and simply walked out of the scene. We filmed this scene using many different shots such as: the wide shot, close up shot and behind the shoulder shot.

The second short sequence was a shot of a character who picked up a rose from the ground. sniffed it, tossed it in the bin and simply walked out of the scene. In this sequence, we filmed this scene using wide shot of the character walking in, close-up ground level shot of the rose being picked up, a close up shot of the character sniffing the rose, goes back to the ground level shot to see the character walking towards the bin, behind the shoulder shot of the character walking towards the bin, a close up shot of the rose being tossed in the bin and just a normal wide shot of the character walking out. This makes the sequence much more interesting and exciting than just a simple wide shot all the way through. We also used a marker to make sure that in all of the shots, the rose was in the same position therefore the shots are continuous.