In my first lesson filming I learnt alot, it was very helpful to have some time where I could get to know how to use the cameras and play around with different shots and angles to see what looks good. We had to film someone, me, walking down a corridor, opening a door, entering the room, sitting down and exchanging a couple of lines of dialougue with someone before leaving. We decided to try and make it slightly more interest than just "Hello." "How are you?" "Good." So we had the two characters act out a breakup. This helped us to learn to think creatively so we could make our pieces of film more interesting.
One of the most important things I learnt was that you should always shoot too much footage. It's much better to have too much footage and to have to delete some or just not use it because once you reach the editing stage it is too late to go back and shoot some more footage as you will be wearing different clothes, look different and the continuality will be ruined. We made sure to try and film multiple takes of each scene incase something messed up or so we could choose the best one and we had two different people filming different angles of the same action at the same time. If I was filming this again I would make sure to check that all the areas we are filming in are appropriately lit as some scenes are darker than others and don't fit together very well.
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