Filming Our Preliminary Exercise

On Friday, our group was first up to film our prelim. task using the 180 degree rule. Myself and Aimie were directing it and Charlotte and Sarah were acting in it, although we all contributed ideas for every aspect of it. (We've got to get used to using phrases like 'cut', 'take 2', etc. because it makes it a lot easier to edit later, but we kept forgetting which take we were on, so next time we will be making notes as we go along.)
We started off with a two shot directly in front/in the centre of the tables that Charlotte and Sarah were sitting at. This shot helps the audience know where the girls are sitting in the room and all the other shots must match up with that, otherwise the viewer is left confused.
For example, when we did the next two camera angles (over the shoulder shots of both Charlotte and Sarah) we had to pace out the distance between the camera and the table to make sure that when we moved the camera to the other side, Sarah and Charlotte's eyeline's would match up and the angle would be the same.
We also did a long shot of Charlotte storming past the door, then angrily bursting through the door when she realises Sarah is in the room (because our script was the lyrics to Michael Jackson's song, 'Wanna be starting something'). We then thought it would be a good idea to have a close up shot of Charlotte's face appearing at the door but when we tried to do this the lighting wasn't right and the shadows stopped us from being able to see her face properly and we couldn't even pull down the blinds of turn the lights of because that would ruin the continuity of the shots.
Instead, we got a close up of Sarah's face looking terrified when she notices charlotte coming through the door.
We also changed our storyboard slightly to fit our new ideas e.g. the close ups, etc.
Now we have to edit what we've got and we can do this as soon as all the other groups have finished filming theirs.