Preliminary tasks notes

Shot reverse shots is a film technique where one character is shown looking at an other character and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character, since the cahracters are shown facing the opposite direction the viewe addumes that they are looking at eachother

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The 180 degree rule  is when the camera should be placed somewhere inside 180 degrees on a particular side of the person(s) being filmed. This shot makes it look like the people are switching places as one watches the film. 

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Match on action is a very sinple but important  tenchique, this is when the perspective and view of the camera changes during a certain scene but that scene continues to flow