Rope (1948) 

Rope is an Alfred Hitchcock film that tells us the story of two young,
wealthy men, Brandon and Philip who strangle and murder a
friend of theirs just to see if they could get away with it. They then
hide his dead body in a chest in the front room, and pass the chest
off as a table, whilst they have people round for a dinner party.
They invite close friends, including the dead mans parents, and alot of
this scene is filmed, with them crowding this chest... table*

Suspense and Shock. 

Suspense and shock can be easily mistaken, yet there is a big difference. Think of a scene in a film set in an ordinary everyday place, for example, a cafe. There are people working in the cafe, people eating in the cafe, tables, chairs etc.
The camera then reveals to the audience that there is a bomb placed somewhere in the cafe. So now the audience is expecting there to be an explosion, but suspense is built through them waiting for it to explode. 
THIS IS SUSPENSE.


Now think of the same scene set, in the same cafe, people tables etc..
but this time, with out any warning or revealing there is an explosion out of nowhere.
No one was expecting the explosion to happen, and maybe even made
the audience jump as they were watching it.
THIS IS SHOCK. 

The Birds.(1963)
starring:
Rod Taylor
Tippi Hendren
Suzanne Pleshette

The birds is another Alfred Hitchcock horror thriller story, written by 

Daphne Du Mauerier in 1952, and the screen play was written by Evan 

Hunter. It is set in Bodega Bay in California and,

the story is of a wealthy socialite from San Francisco who follows
her potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town, that shortly
after her arriving takes a turn for the worst when birds of all kinds
suddenly start attacking the people and as the film goes on, the number
 of birds increase, and so does their vicious murders. This thriller 

shocked the audience especially because the deaths were brutal
 and even women and children were killed. 

The scene near the end of the film where Tippi Hendren is ravaged and
brutally attacked, almost to death, by the birds who had evaded the house took a
week to film. The birds where attached to her clothes by long nylon threads so
they could not fly away, and she did end up with some genuine injuries.

The Preliminary task is not awarded any marks, 

but if the task was not complete marks will be lost.

The preliminary task is a demonstration of continuity editing.

It must show you can successfully use:

-Match on action

-Shot/reverse shot

-180 degree rule

-eye line match

Key Edits: 

Match on action - We see a character start an action in 

                                  one shot and then see them continue it in the next shot.  

Eg, We see them push the handle of a door,

 then see them walk through the door from the other side.

180 Degree Rule: The 180 degree rule is a guideline that states 

that 2 characters, cars, objects etc, in some scenes should

always have the sameleft/right relationship to each other in the frame.

If the camera passes over an imaginary axis connecting the 2 subjects,

it is called ‘crossing the line.’

In the sequence we have filmed,

you will see the following action unfold:

-Character A, walks towards a closed door.
-Character A, enters through the door and confronts
character B who is embarrassingly dancing on the table.
-This means character A and B have a dialogue,
eye line match and Character A, exits again.




This is my Preliminary task;