Preliminary Task
Match on Action
Match on action shot is a useful editing technique for continuity editing. It involves one shot which then cuts to another shot portraying the action the character is doing previously in the first shot.
Match on action gives the impression of continuity, meaning if one part of the shot was film tomorrow and the final shot was filmed in a few weeks match on action creates it as one whole shot without any interruptions. It creates a "visual bridge" by doing this it draws the viewers attention away from any slight cutting or editing that may be out of place.
As I have been researching I have found that some get confused with graphic matching. This is not graphic matching, this portrays a continuous sense of the same action rather than matching two different shots together.
Shot/ Reverse shot
Shot reverse shot is another editing technique mainly used in conversations or of characters looking at each other or objects.Shot/ reverse shot is a shot showing what the character is supposedly focusing on, this is usually either a point of view shot or an over the shoulder shot. This is then followed by a reverse angled shot of the character themselves looking at it, or of the character looking at them.
Shot reverse shot usually collides with the 180degree rule to retain continuity by not distorting the audiences sense of the location of the character within the shot.
180 degree rule
The 180 degree rule is a basic rule that means that the two characters involved within the shot should always have the same left and right relationship with each other, meaning the camera will be filming them having a conversation facing each other.
An example of the 180 degree rule is if you imagine a line extending out from both characters involved within the shot, you can only move the camera across that line. If you break the rule and the character is facing right all of a sudden the character is then facing left, this is due to the 180 degree rule.
The 180 degree rule is a basic rule that means that the two characters involved within the shot should always have the same left and right relationship with each other, meaning the camera will be filming them having a conversation facing each other. An example of the 180 degree rule is if you imagine a line extending out from both characters involved within the shot, you can only move the camera across that line. If you break the rule and the character is facing right all of a sudden the character is then facing left, this is due to the 180 degree rule.
When looking for examples of each of these techniques I have found this one video which shows all three techniques demonstrated:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7GC4962cYE
