AS Media Foundation Portfolio – Self Assessment
Name: Michael Baker

Preliminary Task
· Does your film use continuity editing so that the sequence of events are clear and easily understood by the viewer?

I feel that only one part is hard to understand, and this is because we didn’t think and it looks as though I disappear in one part of the film.

· Have you followed the directions in the brief? (A character opens a door, crosses a room and sits down in a chair opposite another character. An exchange of dialogue occurs.)

We have followed the directions in the brief.

· Have you used match-on-action?

We have used match on action.

· Can you explain what a match-on action involves?

This is when you close up on an action that somebody is doing.

· Have you used shot/reverse shot?

Yes we have.

· Can you explain what shot/reverse shot involves?

It’s when you take one close up of someone talking for example, and then when the next person talks close up on them.


· Did you observe the 180-degree rule?

We did use the 180-degree rule.

· Can you explain the 180-degree rule?

This is when you only stay to one side of the room so that the viewers don’t get confused.