The Pleminary Exercise.
We were set a task, the Preliminary Exercise, a continuity task including filming and editing a short sequence: "a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom he/she then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue." And, we had to show that we knew the 180-degree line rule, a shot/reverse shot, and match on action - the continuity through the story. Continuity meant that if there was a person sitting down on one side of the room that was very noticeable on-screen, the person had to stay there in the same position for the whole production. If the person moved we would have had to show the audience how it had moved otherwise it would confuse the audience and just wouldn't be continuity editing.
