After a lesson on how to work a camera, we were put in groups of four and sent off to start our first shooting. We were given a very simple scene that included a wide shot, two over the shoulders, and two closeups. The only direction made was to shoot the whole scene in all the shot types, after that the groups and our cameras set off to find a location. We chose the studio for our task, however it had been used for another project, therefore it was decorated like an office. The studio wasn't a very good choice of location because the scene included an entrance and exit but there was no door ! Other than that we made a couple of mistakes such as shooting right next to a brick wall, which made it very difficult to obtain good angles (specially for one of the over the shoulder shots). We also found that the camera work is slightly more difficult when one of the two actors are in a seated position.
BACK IN THE EDITING SUITE:
It wasn't until we saw our shooting on the screen, that we found out we had done the whole thing wrong by shooting all shots with only the dialogues belonging to those shots instead of shooting THE WHOLE SCENE IN EVERY SHOT. When we suggested that we had paused inbetween lines to be able to edit, Matt explained to us how that would be a problem of continuity in the dialogue if the conversation was edited together. This experience deffinately tought us alot, specially because we weren't given much instructions, we tried to sort things out by ourselves. Mistakes were bound to happen, but surely the same mistakes will not repeat themselves :).
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