Preliminary Task editting

Today saw the finished cut of our preliminary task video. We have exported the file and posted it on to "youtube". We decided to put our film into black and white to make the experience seem more realistic within the gangster style.
We shot our clips and scenes in orders of practicality, not in order of how the scene plays. The camera was positioned carefully, in order to make viewing easier and to obey the 180 degree rule. Shot reverse shot was easily created as we knew where the camera needed be on our arc to shoot dialogue and throw a sound bridge over the cut to a reaction shot. Match on action was an element that required careful planning as there were only two of us filming and acting, thus meaning many cuts and reshoots with a different camera angle.
We learnt how to plan by using a story board, to give us an idea of the shots and positioning that we wanted to create the desired look. Our storyboard told us how to make each shot, and where we wanted the camera to be. In our storyboard we had an idea of what would look good, we filmed a panning shot and tracking shots as written in our storyboard, however in our edit we decided that the panning shot was not going to work within the working scene.
We have some shots spare and parts of individual shots have not been used where we have made errors or have decided we only want specific parts of a scene, so used the editting software to cut in and cut out.
Some scenes look uneasy, with repetitive dialogue but these were planned to fit within our filming style. One shot, which is shot over the actor's/cameraman's shoulder looks mis framed, but the second actor comes into the shot, this could potentially have been better framed but we like the feeling it gives with the uneasy framing as it looks like the audience is in the scene.