Evaluation - Preliminary task

When planning our preliminary task we had to produce a small piece of film which consisted of a character opening a door, walking across a room and exchanging some sentences of conversation.
We followed the three continuity principle actions which were match on match action, shot reverse shot and the 180 degree rule.
We began the task by creating a story board of how we wanted our preliminary exercise to be, we planned to set our short film in the toilets. The story board consisted of the speech that the two characters were going to say, what each scene was going to consist of and also what camera shots we were going to use. We knew we had to include match on action, shot reverse shot as well as keep to the 180 degree rule. However we also included a point of view shot, side shot, bird’s eye view and a close up, we had to film our shot reverse shot twice so that we could get it from both character perspective. In our story board we decided that Amy would be a bully and Saffron the victim, the scenario would be that Saffron owed Amy some money and she was aggressively asking for it back.
When filming our preliminary task we found that we had no problems and that we also found it relatively easy to film and we completed filming it quite quickly. We found that the problems did occur when we attempted to upload our film from the camera to the laptop. We attempted to change everything from the video camera to the battery charger when we eventually found out that it was the laptop that was faulty, so we changed are laptop and found that our video uploaded virtually straight away. We found that the editing of the film went really well and was completed quite quickly as we found that there was not much to do a part from shorten the length of frames and delete a few clips we did not need or could not use, but when watching the film back we found that we had made two continuity mistakes, one was where of the characters had moved suddenly from one place to another and had slightly changed positions, we tried to cover up these mistakes by using different editing techniques, on the first we used a fade transition to try to make the continuity mistake less obvious to the audience watching and for the second we attempted to use a close up to try and draw out the attention of the mistake by doing this we found that our only problem with this was that the transitions looked a bit out of place when we played back our film. We also added some music at the end of our film and some text and transitions, we did this to try and make it look more professional.
Overall I was quite pleased with the turnout of our finished film clip for our preliminary task. I felt that everything went well and the finished film ran quite smoothly and the continuity mistakes that we made were not as obvious as they were before. I thought that this was a good first attempt at making a short film.