Filming

On Friday the 2nd of October Wes Cat Josh and I began to film our preliminary using the storyboard we drew up last lesson. We were told it had to include a character opening a door, walking across a room and exchanging dialogue with another character.
When our original set of the coffee shop was unavailable we found a graphics room to use for filming and the technician Rob kindly provided us with props to make it look like a cafe; mugs, milk, etc.
We opened on a tilt shot of me walking up to the door of the room; then went onto an extreme close up of my hand opening the door. Josh then took the camera into the room and had a long/mid shot of me walking in and sitting down opposite Wez; Josh then filmed a point of view shot of Wez speaking, shot/reverse shot of us talking and a pan shot of our conversation. We achieved this shot by using a dolly that we found in the graphics room.
We included little dialogue in our preliminary; it was a closed narrative of me walking in, 'breaking up' with Wez, walking out, and Cat saying a line which was "so you got dumped then?!" in a manly voice. This added humour to the piece as she was in the background all along seemingly just drinking coffee although she was really eavesdropping.
The only problems with this exercise were that it was a little rushed and we missed a shot; meaning that we had to refilm next lesson in different clothes but it was still the same. I enjoyed working with this group as we all listened to each other and had a laugh; it was the most enjoyable thing I've done in media so far because it was just so fun!