Problems in Preliminary Task

When we were filming we had some problems as but we managed to get most shots correct first time, but when we watched what we had recorded we realised that we had some unnecessary information in the background; for example objects that shouldn't be there and people in the background. We are going to try and solve this problem when we edit the film, by either blurring the background or trying to cut them out; which is going to be difficult. The only shot that became difficult was the 180 degrees shot. This was because it meant following the actor around the table at the correct pace in order to see what the actors were seeing aswell and at times the pace was either too slow or too quick. We did not manage to do a full 180 degrees shot as we did not circle the entire table, and therefore when doing our next task we will ensure that this angle has been achieved correctly. When we were planning are Preliminary task we struggled to think of dialogue, and any dialogue that we did write did not sound good or fit in with the acting. This problem was solved when we let the actors take control and personalise the language to fit the scene based on what we had told them to say. This improved our video a lot and made it a lot more interesting to watch and listen to. However the sound is not extremely clear on the video as the actors were not close enough to the camera and did not speak loud enough. The location of the film was also difficult to achieve. This is because we had to use props in order to make the scene appear realistic and believable. Props included place mats, knives and forks as well as a candle. This was to make the scene look as if it was in a restaurant.