Our second class in the studio! 

At the beginning of the lesson we concentrated on 180-degree rule. It is a imaginary line used while shooting different scenes, which you can not cross. For example while filming two people having a conversation we can capture them only on one side of our imaginary line. Due to that rule our characters are remaining on this same positions.

If we cross it the viewer might be confused because in the previous shot one of the characters was on the right side of the screen and in the next shot they have changed places.

After practicing 180-degree rule on camera Sony NX5 we started talking about short sequences of shots and their order to make our scene as good as we can.

Then we split into few groups and for the rest the lesson we were shooting different sequences. 

In this task I was a director. My 'job' was to set the scene, place my actor in position that I wanted and cooperate with camera operator, mainly we discussed the place of the camera and just before recording the shot i needed to make sure that he is ready to shoot and camera is ready to roll. The most important commands where: 'Stand by', 'Roll camera', 'Action' and 'Cut'. After first command the camera operator is supposed to answer 'Standing by' and whenever he is ready to record - 'Rolling'. 

My first shot was a wide shot just to set the scene and show the location. The next shot captured character from waist upwards which was a medium shot to show more detail on my actor and his surroundings. The last two shots were close-ups. First one was a close-up on a actors' face to see his facial expression and movement of his mouth while saying his line. The second one was showing him walking down the stairs. We needed so many shots of one scene that while editing the whole scene, we can combine few different shots to make our scene more interesting and polished. 

I had a lot of fun during this lesson, i got to know better the perfect order of shots and this lesson helped me with understanding the 180-degree rule which is crucial while shooting a movie.