This is the video version of our preliminary. It features a match-on-action, use of the 180 degree rule and a shot-reverse-shot. The girl with glasses is Tilly, who is playing the 'teacher's pet' character, and the girl opposite is Claire, who is playing the 'delinquent' character.
These are the storyboards we used as the basis for our video. We tried to keep the live-action version as close to the original as possible. In the first day of filming, we did make the mistake of filming the wrong door in which Claire was supposed to enter, as the door depicted in the storyboards was opposite the one filmed. This was remedied later by re-filming the shot. Similarly, the first day of filming led to inaccuracies in regards to the 180 degree rule, as it was broken during some shots by accident, which we again later remedied on the next day of filming. There was no problems in regards to the shot-reverse-shot, but there were small, extraneous inconsistencies with the match-on-action, as the pens fell differently in every shot and there was no way to make sure they fell exactly the way we wanted them to, every time.
If there was anything we disliked about the video, it would be the various continuity errors that were out of our control, such as the pens and the various people in the background who we could not ask to leave the room. As a result, we learned that we needed to find a place to film in which there are as few extraneous circumstances as possible, or make a viable effort to remove such problems, and to organise a schedule better, as often filming was delayed to actors/extras having other commitments they needed to attend to.
Compared to some of the others, this turned out pretty well. It's a shame about the people in the background but, on the whole, your positioning of the camera and editing is fine. There was a bit of a sound issue right at the start. The prelim is essentially a practice for your real film so just make sure you learn from any mistakes! I liked it though! Scary Claire!
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