Planning Preliminary Match Cut Exercise (Storyboard)

We were given a brief to follow:

Film the following sequence making sure to use at least one match cut, an example of shot/reverse shot and showing your understanding of the 180 degree rule (by not breaking it)

A character opens a door, walks into a room, sits down opposite another chanter and they share a few lines of dialogue.

We then had to storyboard by writing down the shot number, ext/int/, different shot types, action and the shot description.

SHOT No. /EXT/INT /SHOT TYPE /ACTION/SHOT DESCRIPTION

0/INT/MS/STILL Person1 sitting in room
1 INT LS STILL Person2 walking down corridor
2 INT CU TRACKING Seeing Person2 walk
3 INT LS TRACKING Person2 walking up to the door
4 INT POV STILL Person1 in the room watching person2 walking in
5 INT POV STILL Person 2 looking at person 1
6 /INT /TS /STILL/Person2 going to sit down, person
7 /INT /SRS/ STILL/ Person1 looking at person2
8 /INT /SRS /STILL/ Person2 Looking at person1
9 /INT/ MS/ STILL/ Person2’s face

10 INT OSS PANS Person1 looking at person 2 talking
11 INT MCU TITLS Person1 fiddling
12 INT CU ZOOM Person1’s face

13/INT/ POV/STILL/Person2 talking- telling bad news
14/INT/MS/STILL/Two people looking at each other
15/INT/POV (Person1)/TILT/Person1 looking at person2 getting up
16/INT/MS/ZOOM/Person1 looking at table, door closing, seeing person1’s face.


Person2 has bad news to tell person1

Rough dialogue:

Person2: got something to tell you
Person1: [looks confused]
Person2: there’s been an accident on the M6 and you’re parents have died
Person1: what!?

We changed the storyboard slightly so that we could hear and see more of person1’s reaction to the bad news.