PRELIMINARY EXERCISE

The Consultant's Diagnosis

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

We had 3 people in our filming group. Two actors and one cameraman. One of the actors was the patient who was suffering from hair loss; The Doctor was sitting at his desk filling out paper work and updating patient documents.

The patient began to run up the stairs of the building; the 180 degree rule was used at the top of the stairs as we just filmed the patient sprinting up the stairs. We utilised the 'shot reverse shot' which is placing the camera over the shoulder of one of the actors to capture the facial expressions and dialogue from the speaking actor and same the other way.

We also used the 'tracking shot' as the patient progresses through the room to the Doctors desk - the camera follows the patient as he moves across the room.