Match on Action

Match on action:

• Editing technique for continuity editing, in which one shot is cut to another one showing the action from the first shot.
• creates a sense of continuity action carrying through, this draws the viewers attention away from the slight cutting. This is called a visual bridge.
• It portrays continuous sense of the same action rather than matching two seperate things.

180 degree rule:

 
• this is when the camera stays in the region of 180 degrees, it does not pass the 180 degree line as this may confuse the audience.
• this mainly happens when there are two characters are sitting opposite each other having a conversation.

Shot/reverse shot: 

• This is a continuity editing technique used in conversations or simply characters looking at each other. 
• A shot that shows what a character is looking at. E.g. Either a point of view or over the shoulder shot which then follows by a reverse angle shot of the character looking at it or the other character looking back at them. 
• This often ties in with the 180 degree angle rule to keep the continuity by not distorting the audiences sense of location of the characters in the shots.

When we come to shoot our real film, we need to make sure that we follow the 180 degree rule and match on action for certain scenes, e.g. if we have a scene of someone running, we need to make sure it appears that although we filmed different shots it appears fluid and that the character is running on the same side. Or even for scenes say if a character is running continuously but jumps over something that these actions appear fluid to the audience and not make the footage appear distorted.