Continuity exercise

We were given a scenario as a group of three were we had to use our own creativity each within the filming. Our brief was that our Continuity Exercise must show a person/character opening a door, who then crosses across a room and sits down on a chair opposite the other character, where they then had a brief conversation with each other.

The key media skills we had to demonstrate were:
Shot reverse shot: this is when a character is seen looking at another character that can be on or off screen (most of the time they are off screen) and then the other character is shown looking back at the first character.
180 degree rule: this is when the character must stay on either the left or right of the screen and cannot go across 180 degrees.
Match on action: this is when a shot which connects two shots cut together by having a character finish an action in the second shot begun in the first shot.

In this exercise i worked with Phoebe and Ciara, as we filmed we used a story board to help us with when we should do these shots and how long each shot should be. We all agreed and worked together with similar ideas of where we should film it and what should be said during the conversation. We all individually had ideas which we put forward in order to develop this scenario and make it interesting.
We came to an conclusion that our piece of work will be set in a school class room and the conversation would be between Phoebe and Ciara having a conversation about a subject or exam worrying them in school. We thought this worked well as we are students already and it fitted well with our gender doing our continuity exercise in school as this made it seem more realistic. Our match on action took place with Phoebe coming into the class room and then sitting down. Then our shot reverse shot took place between Phoebe and Ciara having there conversation.
We had to unfortunately film our continuity exercise twice as we found it difficult to stay within the 180 degree rule. This taught us the importance of editing and then made us understand that the audience would be confused if the position of the actors kept changing and the work would not have such a smooth edit.