The Match on action shot 

Today we learnt what a match on action shot is and how you film it. A match on action shot is a cut from one scene to another. The 2 shots are matched by the action or agenda of the scene. We were given a task which was to make  a short film using the match on action shot technique. This was so that we were familiar with what the actual shot is and how you can perform the shot.

Learning comments

To start, we found it a challenge for all of the motions to link, we replayed the first scene and realised that if we kept doing it the way we did, it would not run smoothly. The way we did it was the camera man would change places to shoot from and the actor would also change, however, when we looked back at the footage we realised that the actors hands, feet and body position were not the same. We spoke about how we could improve the look and we then did improve it, we said that the camera man should cut the sequence, move places all whilst the actor stayed in the exact same spot and it worked. Also, our clips went on for too long with no much happening in them, this was a problem because we did not know if we should make them shorter or keep it the same length, we kept it the same and it didn't really work out. Another thing we saw was that the film did not make sense in he way of editing, when we edited the film together, we missed editing out the parts when we would start the clip, this was clear within the 4th scene as the 2nd character was stationary but scene 3 shows him moving. From peer-feedback, we saw this and edited it so it ran smoothly. This is also evident in scene 7. We did like how some of the film went like most of the editing, the actual shots and angles.
Next time, we would make sure the clips were shorter and that in some of the shots you could see me filming. We would organise ourselves and make sure that you could not see the camera man as it makes it look unprofessional.