Preliminary task

First, we set up the tripod and bubbled the tripod. We then placed the camera on the tripod and put the battery in the camera. We turned the power of the camera on and white balanced the camera, then focused it so that it would film correctly.

We filmed the sequence in the hallway of our school as the surroundings of the shot looked great and there was a turning on the left where one of us could walk through to leave in the end of the script. We did not use any props or music or costume, just ourselves in the clothes we were wearing on that day. The shots that we used were a wide shot, over the shoulder shot and close up shot as those were the shots best used for doing the preliminary task using the 180 degree rule.

Moreover, we worked quite well and cooperatively as we had one two people working on the camera together and two people acting out the scene which was probably the best way to do it.

However, we did have to improvise as the area we were first filming at was invaded by a teacher at our school telling us not to film by the staff toilet as it was a public area for teachers so we had to change the place we were filming at. One of our actors also forgot their lines so they held made up/changed lines and we went along with it.

We filmed the scene multiple times using different shots and when editing, we cut the repeated and bad parts so that we showed all the different shots in one scene with all the different lines that followed after each other. For example, the first line was filmed using a wide shot and the second line was filmed using an over the shoulder shot etc.

Editing was fairly easy to master as we did it as a group and discussed together which scenes we liked and thought were best. One of the boys in our group had edited clips before so he was familiar with the software in which we were using. This made it easier for us as he knew what to do.

Furthermore, we learned which angles we can film from and which angles we can't film from. I also learned that working as a group makes things easier and when editing, copy a scene first before you cut it.

I would make the other person acting with me learn his lines so that it wouldn't have been as much of a struggle and wouldn't have taken up so much time re-filming shots. That would also have allowed us more time to edit, instead of taking up time from another lesson.