Preliminary task Evaluation

The location for our preliminary film task was a classroom and this location was used to show the regular place where lots of grown-ups have their debates, problems and so on.
My role in this task was a participation of plan development and discussion with other members of the group what camera trick shall we use in a particular frame.
Our group used hard key lighting to show the conflict between two characters and make the negative older girl stricter. This trick was effective because with help of the light we created a contrast even on the face of the character where one part of it was on the light and the second one shadowed.
Our group set up camera correctly and 'bubbled' or check tripod level each time when the camera was moved to another place and it means that tripod bubble indicator was always in the centre of the cirlce. The camera was framed correctly each time and one of the main aspects - none of the lighting and the camera equipment won't in the frame.
We discussed a lot about the angles which were necessary to use in particular shots and, firstly, we started from long establishing shot which showed us the place where the action will perform. Secondly, all close-ups and mid-shots of the older negative sister from the low angle to show her dominance on the youngest one who in opposite was showed in all close-ups and mid-shots from the high angle which symbolise her misery. We also thought about soft light which theoretically might give an additional degree of innocence to this girl but this idea had no effect on practice, so we dropped it. Also close-ups itself were used to show emotional condition of two characters and mid-shots were used to be more familiar with character.
Our group didn't break the 180 degree rule so in all sequence actors who stayed on the right side didn't swap immediately and stay on the right side, so we didn't confuse the viewer.
All terminology (eg. 'Stand by', 'Rolling', 'Action', etc.) was well-known by our group and used it in all task so everybody knew the meaning of these words and actions which follow after.
In addition, we used a special trick of 5 seconds after word 'Rolling' and only after these seconds, we can say 'Action'. The situation repeated at the end when the action ended only after 5 seconds director can say 'Cut'. It was performed to have an additional material on the editing board if we need to cut more seconds than we expected. It's called lead-in and lead-out, in addition there were colour bars at the start of the sequence. They also were used to prevent loss of important frame at the beginning.
So from that preliminary task and especially from two days plan development before we learnt about 180 degree rule which shouldn't be broken to not confuse the spectator, we learnt basics of light work and how source of the light can influence to the character role, we repeated all basics about frames of the camera and, finally, we practiced all this tricks which we knew only in theory before.