Learning Tasks: Match On Action

Definition : The idea of sequencing events in chronological order to maintain continuity so the narrative can be followed. This is by matching the movement from one footer of one scene with the header of the next.

The first time we shot and filmed our initial video, we didn't worry about match on action and it wasn't perceived as a big thing to us. But after learning about Match On Action, the second time round that we filmed, we knew that it meant a big deal. So to get a match-on action in there and have the correct technique, we looked at the scene/shot before, examined it and tried to replicate the exact same movement so we could achieve the technique.

Match-On-Action creates the impression of a sense of continuity. As if it carries out a visual bridge and it is the sense of the same action made and not two different actions joined together. Without it you seem to loose the audience attention because there are missing parts to the story.

When an audience comes to see a film, they expect to be given a continuous film instead it disrupts the the audience's real time of the film.

Using the ball, gave us an initial idea of a simple throw and catch game made to an intense theme. So we always made sure we had this continuity of the ball been thrown and in this exact timing.

In films like Avatar, the Match-On-Action is very sudden. From 0:55 - 0:57, you can instantly aww the the mistake, as his arms was up on the bars but suddenly on his wheelchair. This also occurs on 2:11 - 2:15 with the man in the white shirt standing.  He seems to have his left hand on the bar but in the next shot its on his hip. 

This is our Preliminary Task Take 1 

Unfortunately we lacked match-on-action. Between 0:09 - 0:17, you can see the paper closer to the girl sitting down but then the paper moves further away and then goes back to having the paper closer the girl again. 

Between 0:53 and 0:55, the red t-shirt girl was at an angle further away from the chair and the next shot she is nearly touching the chair and there is no way that we showed how she got from one to another. It's such simple things that make the video so distraught and harder to follow or just disrupt's our pleasure of watching it.

This is our Preliminary Task Take 2

We had more match-on-action in this take as we didn't use many objects and we kept every object that we used as it was and didn't move it around. Only thing that we had to ensure the same was the dialogue, the laptop and the book that the other girl got out from her bag.