Continuity Task

We decided to film our continuity task in the girl's toilets at school. We thought of a simple storyline in order to make the clip more interesting to watch.
For the first shot, we used a close up of high heeled shoes, using a tri-pod to keep the shot steady and tilting the camera down so we could get the shoes in the shot whilst the character was walking down the hallway. We then filmed a shot of the long corridor, which ends in a vanishing point, with the actor right at the end. She begins to walk towards the camera, we then cut to the same girl but she is now halfway down the corridor. She walks for a couple of seconds then we cut again to the girl even closer to the camera. We do this to show that time has passed and we do not show the actor walking all the way down the corridor in real time, because it would get boring to watch. The camera follows the girl as she turns the corner; we then filmed a shot to show her pushing open the door. This worked well because we managed to get a fluent, realistic shot change.
The next shot was filmed into the mirror. We did this because we could see the girl coming in through the door, which was actually hidden around a corner. We could also see the second girl in what was almost an over the shoulder shot. We then show a shot as if the camera is the mirror. We propped the camera up in the sink. This gave a really interesting shot, especially as the colour of the overall shot seemed blue, and this added to the idea of the camera being a glassy mirror. When the two girls leave the girl’s toilets, the screen is left with a shot of three cubicles. I think this shot is very effective. It is split into the three sections of the separate cubicles and seems oddly empty without the dialogue or action.