PRELIMINARY EXERCISE

 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.

With my group, I filmed and edited my preliminary exercise.

Patient Diagnosis

Whist making our short clip in my group of 3 about the hypochondriac patient, we wanted to make the build up to when he met the doctor as dramatic as possible.

In order to achieve this, we used many different shots, varying in close ups, long shots and towards the end we included some over the shoulder shots.

We incorporated two long shot/ full body shots in the shot film when the patient is on his way to meet the doctor.

One of the long shots was of the patient running up the stairs in urgency to get to the doctor and the second one was when the patient entered the room and strode over the room to sit next to the doctor.

The effect of these shots is to emphasize his distress as we are able to get his full body in, meaning we are able to study body language and facial expressions making it easier for the audience to understand how he is feeling. 

Another type of shot we included was close ups.

The close up that we had was of the patient’s feet and them running up the stairs, the camera had no other focus.

By having a close up of just the feet it shows us he is striving to get somewhere and that he has a clear aim/ goal. It should be the only thing that the audience is focused on as well as it is the only ting in the frame, in turn making it more captivating.

Our last shot was an over the shoulder shot.

This was used when the two were conversing and the possible outcomes the doctor had for the patient’s problems.

Over the shoulder was used as I believe it makes it a more interesting shot as you are still able to see both characters when they are taking to one another. As well as this, by having an over the shoulder shot, it is closer in on the face. This enables the camera to capture facial expressions the patient expresses when explain his illnesses and the reactions that the patient has when talking to the doctor and hearing what he has to say about it.