Analysing preliminary task

In our preliminary task we had to take the camera, go outside the classroom, take some shots of a conversation and edit it in post production.
You see a CU of a doorhandle when it moves down, we track out and tilt up to watch our character coming back from work in a MCU. We stay with him to see the shock coming over his face. This connotes that he's seen something scary. When he says "what are you doing here?" we realise there is another person on the other side of the room. We then cut to an over-shoulder shot of this person to not reveal his face. We use rule of third placing him in the right bottom corner and the other guy's face in the left top one, so we can watch his body language when the mysterious person says in a dark voice "I've come to see you!" He is filling one third of the corner whereas the other character has a bit leading room left. We had some problems situating our characters in the right positions after each shot so that it was easier to produce continuity editing. We have to be more careful with that when shooting our final task.

We tried different methods to make it look like the door shuts itself and the first attempts pulling it with a line from outside didn't look good so I just pushed it with my foot which you don't realise when you don't know so it looks much better.

As we only used diegetic sound we realised that we don't need extra sounds for everything to make it sound real. For example I liked the creaking of the door handle when it gets pushed down or the banging at the door when it's closed later.
Unfortunately the chatting from the other classrooms around disturbed a bit but we couldn't help it. When shooting our final task we have to make sure no one's around or if it is a busy place that we're just pacient and wait for the right moments.
The voices in the video are quite clear so we had no problems like wind with that.

The most difficult part to achieve was probably continuety editing. We already had our piece finished in the lesson after shooting it but there was a incident so we had to re-edit everything again and it looked different after the second time. This is why we had to do the fade to black transition so it looked at least better than the pretty harsh cut we had before. For next time we must shoot more footage to have a bigger amount to choose from, but for the first time we are pleased with the result and it was fun to make it.