Match Cut Prelim Analysis

As part of the coursework, we had to film a sequence which we included a match cut and stay within the hundred and eighty degree rule. The sequence was of someone opening a door and walking into a room. This character also had to sit down opposite another character and share a few lines of dialogue walking through a door. We were told to use different types of shots such as close-ups, long shots, over the shoulder shots and many more alongside actions and different angles of the camera.

As a group we worked out using our imagination, what shots would be effective to use and drew up a detailed storyboard until every member was notified about what was going to happen and was happy to go along with the filming process. Altogether we had ten shots which we planned to film in our storyboard. In my group, we had many shots of the character walking towards and into the room to allow enough filming to do a match cut whilst editing. One shot that I found particularly effective was the the low angle close up of one of the character's' feet because it made the character look suspicious and mysterious as the face was not shown at this point.

The editing process went very well, in my view because the whole group worked together helping out and giving opinions for further improvement. I thought my group did very well for the first match cut exercise. However, we did break the hundred and eighty degree rule as we filmed the shots when the dialogue took place from different sides of the room and the lengths of some edits were quite short which didn't allow enough time to see the actual action.

Overall, I felt the exercise was a success and the few errors which occurred in this exercise were helpful because as a group, we now know what we need to look out for.