Preliminary |Evaluation

In film making, the 180-degree rule is a basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene.

When filming we wanted to make sure we had this rule correct, as if we got this wrong our preliminary video would not if been a success. This rule is relatively easy to follow so we didn't have problems when filming and editing.

using final cut pro fir the first time was a fun but challenging experience, I have never used any editing software before so I thought it was going to be a nightmare, and for sending parts it was for example sound and sound effects was very challenging when it came to using this software. when explained how to use certain features it was easier to use and relatively easy too remember.

Adding Credits and title cards was easy to add to our preliminary.

if I was to change anything on my preliminary, I would add more content to it, to achieve thatIi would of filmed more and possibly added some library footage to create a different aspect to our preliminary. also more planning to get.a definite genre because when planning the was supposed to be mystery/drama feel but when editing it had changed to a comedy. 

Shot reverse shot (or shot/countershot) is a film technique where one character is shown looking at another character (often off-screen), and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character.

When editing our shot reverse shot to run smoothly as one sequence it was tricky as me and Eoin could not find how to order it in proper was using final cut pro, it's hard to do this sequence because due to the speed of the dialogue also Melissa and Myself conversation seemed quite fast so cutting between shit where milliseconds, using the mouse seemed hard to control how much you cut also.

Match on action (or cutting on action) is an editing technique for continuity editing in which one shot cuts to another shot portraying the action of the subject in the first shot.

I found this the most challenging we took the first, two shots but missed out the third making it a challenging sequence to achieve.