Oliver Watson AS Preliminary task definitions

Match on action= Match on action is an editing

technique where a shot of a subject cuts to another shot that shows what they are doing in the first shot. A good example of this is where a person walks up to a door and reaches for the knob. Just as his hand touches the knob the scene cuts to a shot of the door opening from the other side.

Shot/ reverse shot= An editing technique used during conversations. There is an over the shoulder or a point of view shot from one person looking at the other character, followed by another shot (either a point of view shot or an over the shoulder shot) looking back at the first person.

80 degree rule= A basic principle regarding the space between 2 characters or objects within a scene. An imaginary line called the axis connects the 2 characters, and by keeping the camera on one side of this axis for every shot in the scene, the first character is always frame right of the second character, who is then always frame left of the first.