Interpretation of Preliminary Task Brief

For our preliminary task we were asked to plan, storyboard and finally film a simple narrative following these instrustions:

• A character enters a room
• The character then crosses the room
• The same character sits down opposite another character
• A few sentences of dialogue are exchanged between the two charcters

We were then told to include all four of the continuity techniques; the 180° rule, match-on-action, shot/reverse shot and eyeline match.

Brief summary of narrative

First character is sitting at table working. Another character sees this and sits down at the table as well, a few words are exchanged. The first character gets tricked into doing the other charcters work. Time passes. Second character picks up finished work and leaves the first charcter at the table.