Preliminary Video and Evaluation

The story we were trying to tell was an interview between a police officer and a suspect over the murder of a young girl called Linda Johnson. During the interview, the officer asks a number of questions to the suspect trying to get answers to who murdered the girl.

In the sequence we managed to use all the editing techniques listed:

• Match on action
• Eye line match
• shot, reverse shot
• 180 degree rule 

The eye line match was at the very beginning of the sequence where you see the officer looking through the window at the suspect and the next shot is actually looking into the room at the suspect. After this we decided to include a match on action, this is shown when we see the officer open the door and then it cuts to inside the room, where the action continues and is completed. As the sequence progresses and the interview begins shot, reverse shot takes place. This is demonstrated as each person speaks, so when the suspect speaks the camera is pointed at him and is often a over-the-shoulder shot, this is also present when the officer speaks too. Finally, the 180 degree rule is not broken during any part of our film.

I think we used each technique accurately and very well. We made sure every shot was at a good standard and everything when editing was in the correct place and everything made sense to us. In the filming of the sequence, some mistakes were made but these mistakes was only forgetting our lines, so nothing too major.

Overall, I think our short sequence was very good for our standards and we made sure we did everything as good as it could be. The match on action and eye line match was very good because we made sure the timing was key and it made sense to us all. The only improvement we could make was the editing aspect as we had to rush to finish it all and if we had more time, we could have done some more improvements.