This document contains descriptions of various camera shots used in a film scene. It discusses shots taken over the shoulders of characters for conversation scenes, as well as mid shots and long shots showing character movement and actions. Some shots break conventions like the 180 degree rule for visual interest or to draw attention to particular actions. Matching shots are used to cut between openings of a case without revealing its contents.

2. Long shot, over the shoulder from Jack’s
perspective. It shows most of the
location, but also serves to show the
action, my character entering the room.
Over the shoulder close up, from my perspective,
showing the conversation between the two characters.
It is also one of the first shots of our 180 degree rule
being established, with the camera being one the right
side of me and the left side of Jack.
Another over the shoulder shot, but from Jack’s
perspective, our use of the shot reverse shot,
which continues through most of the task.

3. A mid shot, placed on the, to show
Jack picking up the case. We broke the
180 degree rule for this one shot, as
we thought it would be a better way to
film this shot, and the jarring nature of
breaking the 180 rule would draw
attention to this particular action.
This is an mid shot of the case being pushed
forward, creating an interesting shot as
the case moves across the frame.
This is an insert of the case
being opened, the first shot of
the match on action we used
in this clip.

4. This is a mid shot of Jack opening the case
properly and the second shot, that completes
our match on action. We made an effort to
never show the contents of the case, keeping
an enigma in our task, one of the thriller genre
conventions.
A long shot from behind me, which again
Breaks the 180 degree rule, but creates a
more interesting shot composition with both
characters confined to the middle and leftmost
thirds and creates visual interest through that.
The final shot of the task, again breaking the 180
degree rule, however, as this is the end of the
conversation between the two characters
it is used to show me getting up from a different
angle than had been previously used.