The Phone Call

We were given the task in our last two lessons to go out and film clips for a piece called 'The Phone Call'. This consisted of a given set of shots we had to film.
We chose our first character, and decided we would set him in the common room, but taking note of what happened last time we took note of the mise-en-scene and actually sat him in the corner of the room, where it looked refurbished with all the new chairs, so it seemed a very clean and well created atmosphere with good surroundings.
We filmed several shots, and I took note of what we had 'Dan' say. he said "Hello, You alright? Yeah I'm fine thanks."
It occured to me that the second character would have to respond to this chat, and it wouldn't have sounded right if he was saying the same thing back, so we had Dan say the above, and then 'Jez' said "Hi mate, yeah I'm fine. You?"
It seemed realistic to take note of this because we knew when were going to edit our filming on iMovie, we would have to change the clips round and put them in order that made the filming seem realistic.
I felt that our filming was so much better compared to last time, and I felt I had improved too, because I was taking note of the small things that I didn't realise before, like making sure I did not cut the heads off!
If I had to level myself right now, for that piece, I'd say I was verging on becoming a level 3. I do not believe I have yet had the correct level of experience with filming to be a solid level 3, and I believe practice is the key to being able to film correctly, learning and developing your own technique that works well.
I really enjoyed this piece of work, it helps working in a group too because we all learnt from each other's mistakes, not just our own.