Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving 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.
Continuity - everything appears logical and flows while on screen, breaking these rules would ruin the realism of the show and make it seem fake and artificial
Shot/reverse shot - different camera positions edited together to display a conversation and show both the characters during the conversation.
Match on action - swapping between the action's start and end point, both start and end must match. For example, seeing someone throw a memory stick and then seeing someone catch it.
180-Degree rule - The camera must not go onto the other side of a line, this is so that it is clear that people are talking to each other (and not themselves).
A shot list for my PRELIM can be found here
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