For our prelim task we shot in the studio, the set being a single room with two windows and a door to the left of the camera (in keeping with the 180 degree rule). During the shoot, I mostly operated the camera whilst Richard directed and Shane kept record of continuity (the original idea being to rotate roles, but proved to be too complicated). As well as filming the required material, we also filmed an additional sequence including myself and Richard as actors. During the time we spent in the studio I learned much about the operation of the camera, as I was behind it for the majority of the shoot. For the main task, we bought in two actors (Charlie, Shane) so that Richard other Shane and myself could always be behind the camera, making the process of directing, filming and continuity much easier. In terms of the script, we had the actors repeat the scene as closely as they could from different angles (we only had one camera). The list of different shots on the storyboard seemed colossal before the shoot commenced, but most of them turned out to be the same shot, and would have more to do with the way the sequence was to be edited (but that's another story). We went through the process of physically filming it, operating the camera, recording and working out the shots with relative ease, the hard part was positioning the actors, as no matter how much tape we put down, the positions of their bodies and the way they held themselves was always different. Once we had copleted our preliminary task, there was some time left over, so we made a short sequence in which we explored close up shots, low angle and different types of camera movement, although our actors had left at this point.
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