Pre-Production Reflection - Preliminary Task

We were given the task of creating the sequence of a film in which the following had to happen; a character open a door, crosses a room and sits down in a chair opposite another character, with when she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue.

We were given a script called 'Pop Goes' to work from, written by Mr Wall which was based on the sequence we were previously given. In our production teams we were then tasked with using the script and making it into a short film. Having a script gave us some boundaires, but it also allowed is to explore a bit, with camera equipment and learning how to create meaning through shots.
To turn the script into a film we as a production team, storyboarded, shot listed and looked for a location.

We left making our storyboard and shortlist quite late, as we had started it at the very beginning, but we just jumped into filming. We realised that having a shot list and storyboard are very important, as we began to lose track of what we were filming, so we went back and finished both before continuing to film.
We each took turns in different roles such as directing, this allowed us to experience the different roles that go into creating a short film.

Finding a location and casting people for our short film, were some of the harder tasks but also important. As a group, as we also left it late to discus these components and overcomplicated it. We initially want to set our film in a courtyard and in a business looking location (we never had a final decision). However it would have been to difficult to shoot outside of school as we were busy or lived far away. So we decided to have our locations around the school, this way we could shot in during the day.
When deciding our cast we wanted to get a boy to play the character of Baz as in the script it is a man and a women. This was also to difficult as we were shooting in school and during school time and it would be to hard to film with someone else with the short amount of time we had.  This meant that we decided to just use people in our team to play the characters of Baz and Anna.