The 180 degree angle rule is when the camera can move anywhere within a half circle but cannot stray across to the other side otherwise the shots between two characters would show them facing the same direction.
The match on action rule is an example of continuity editing, this typically embeds cuts in the middle of an action. This technique helps hide the cut since the viewer is paying attention to the action rather than the edit.
This is an inital idea that the group (me , vicky , david and yasmin ) came up with.
(Direct address shot of woman sitting in a waiting room of hospital – waiting for news on husbands operation)
(Woman’s fidgeting badly, she paces up and down the room, then sits down and she is tapping her feet on the floor and fidgeting with her hands) (nurse enters and woman jumps up out of her seat)
(close p on her feet- then close up on the door handle- woman jumps up- log shot back at the nurse standing there)
Woman: (shot-reverse-shot) what is it? What has happened? Is he going to be okay?
Nurse: would you like to take a seat..?
Woman: can you just tell me if he’s okay?
Nurse: (zoom out to long shot when they sit down) he pulled through the operation-
Woman: (buts in) (close up on womans face) ah thank god! I’ve been so worried, i-
Nurse: (buts in) but… although we’ve got rid of the tumour, he’s lungs aren’t strong enough to keep him alive, the life support machine is what is keeping him alive.
Woman: (mid shot looking at both characters)( stutters) just tell me how long he’s got left?
Nurse: (moves in closer and holds her hand) I cant guarantee it, but from past experiences, 2weeks, tops… but if you give us your permission we would turn the life support off to put him out of the pain he is in, it’s up to you…
(close up on womans face as she quivers, then as she cries her head drops)
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