How to film a sequence

Today I learnt how to film a sequence, a sequence is a series of shots played one after another which gives the illusion that it is continuous motion. There a three different types of shot - wide, close-up and medium.
When filming a sequence:
1) Film the whole sequence in a wide shot, this is so you can pick up all the information in the shot.
2) Then film a medium shot, this is usually the waist up on a person and it will pick up more detail.
3) Then film a close up, this is to get the fine detail and focus on one particular aspect of a person or object.

When you are about to film a shot the director will say 'stand by' this will signal the camera man to go to his camera. Then the director will say 'roll camera' this alerts the camera to begin recording. After the director is satisfied he will shout 'cut' the camera man will stop filiming, but he must not before he is told to.

One key thing I learn was to never watch the footage back on the shoot or delete footage, as it wastes precious, expensive studio time and every piece of footage could have a few seconds of useful material.

From this workshop I learnt that it is vital to keep the sequence simple, as we over-complicated our one and the results were not as successful as we hoped. We also learnt to assign a continuity person as when the continuity is out it makes the whole sequence look bad.

180° Rule

• Also known as 'crossing the line'.
• This is a rule that says you can only film a 180° circumfrance around the point of intrest.
• This means that one object is always on the left, and one is always on the right.
• If you go over 180° the objects would be opposite sides and would make no sense

Rule of Thirds

• Initially you split the screen into thirds horizontally and vertically.
• There a four spots where the lines intersect, these are the hot spots.
• By filling each hotspot you can make for an intresting shot.