Planning Preliminary Match Cut Exercise Including Storyboarding

In preparation for creating our match cut extract, we were asked to predict the shots of an opening scene of a film, the synopsis was this;

East London. 3pm. A man chain-smokes as he sits at his home PC. He copies confidential computer files and plans to a CD. He packages them and is seen posting them.

Using a grid of 20 rows, we had to create 20 shots we predicted would be in this extract considering external/internal place, shot type, action (tracking, pan, tilt etc.) and a brief description as to what is being exposed. Many of my shots were accurate such as, the close up of cigarette and mouth, mid shot of CD coming out of hardrive. All of these estimated shots help us to plan and think about what out preliminary match cut edit will appear like.

Before we began our storyboard, we were required to consider a match cut, shot reverse shot, and showing our 180 degree rule understanding. The synopsis of out extract was

a character opens a door, walks into a room, sits opposite another character and they share a few lines of dialogue

Our shot reverse shot would obviously be whilst the two characters conversate, using mid shots. As we predicted the shots for the first extract we did for our own, this was the planning. The storyboard consisted of close up shots of for e.g. handle and hand opening, feet walking towards the camera, this is a successful match cut.