This document defines and provides examples of different types of shots used to tell a narrative story through video, including eyelines shots, continuity shots, establishing shots, and shot reverse shots. Eyeline shots show what a character is looking at. Continuity shots piece together a narrative by showing related scenes in sequence. Establishing shots set the location. Shot reverse shots cut between two people conversing by showing one speaker then the other.

1. TV Web Base Drama Task
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EYELINE MATCH
This shot is when the camera is showing the actor/actresses face and their eyes
are looking at something, the camera then follows to where the eyes are looking
at.
In this shot we can see the boys
eyes are looking down at something.
This is the next shot we see, this is following the first shot that we saw and it is
showing us what the boy was looking at.
CONTINUITY SHOT
This is when you cut shots and piece them together that tells a narrative story.

2. All these shots are showing suitcases and them packing up their stuff and going
out the door, they are all after each other so this is telling us that they are all
going to be going somewhere and as they are all after each other it is showing us
that they are going to be going together. The story is told through the shots.
This is an Establishing shot, this is showing us where the scenes are set and
what location they are in.
This is a Shot reverse Shot as it shows one person talking then goes to the other

3. person then back to the other person talking.
From these shots we can see there is a conversation going on, the camera goes
from the first person talking then it shots the next person answering and does
this though out the conversation.

4. person then back to the other person talking.
From these shots we can see there is a conversation going on, the camera goes
from the first person talking then it shots the next person answering and does
this though out the conversation.

5. person then back to the other person talking.
From these shots we can see there is a conversation going on, the camera goes
from the first person talking then it shots the next person answering and does
this though out the conversation.