Further Camera Shots

We then moved on to learning about different types of camera shots.


Match on action.
This is also known as cutting action and is an editing technique for continuity editing in which one shot cuts to another shot in which portrays the action of the subject in the first shot.


This particular shot creates the impression of continuity and the action that is carried through creates a 'visual bridge' in which draws the viewer's attention away from slight problems in the continuity cutting.

Match on action is not a graphic match or match cut, it portrays a continuous sese of the same action rather than matching two seperate things together.


Shot reverse shot.
This is a continuity editing technique that is used in conversations or just simply characters looking at one another or objects.

A shot showing what the character is supposedly looking at (could be either a point of view or over the shoulder shot) is then followed by a reverse angle shot of the character themselves looking at it, or for example, of the other character looking back at them.

Shot reverse shot can often tie in with the 180 degree rule to retain continuity by not distorting the audience's sense of location of where the characters are in the shots.

180 Degree Rule.
The 180 degree rule is a filming guideline that shows in a scene the same left-right relationship between characters. The filming can only take place within the 180 degree rule angle in which is maintained in a conversation for example.

For example, when you see soliders walking from left to right to the front lines, and right to left when they return home, creating a continuous sense of direction.

This will then allow the audience ro have a greater sense of location in the scene in terms of what may be off-screen in some shots, for example in shot reverse shots.