Completed filming on Sunday

Yesterday we managed to film our scenes, luckily we were extremely fortunate in that we managed to film everything we wanted within the 2 hours. However we had an issue on friday afternoon where our actress (the protagonist) could no longer be part of our film opening!
We were then forced to hastily find a replacement actress. Luckily we found someone, Molly in the year above (year 13) who said she was able to step in and help us! We told Molly to wear posh, smart clothing and we met her on sunday after quickly informing her of the location and what we wanted her to do/ what our film opening is about.
Unfortunately we spent about 20 minutes on a shot that I particularly struggled to get right. A simple wide shot of Molly entering the room, and sitting down. But as she sat down, her head would get cut off at the top of the shot. So I struggled to follow her in time and move the camera up and down as she sat down. Eventually I managed to get the shot right, and we moved on to various other shots. We filmed the same scene over and over again from different angles and so when we were editing we had plenty of shots to choose from.
We each took it in turns to film different shots so that it was fair and we all had a go. In one scene, I even make an appearance as an extra, someone who supposedly works at the magazine office, attempting to put a poster up on the wall (which was kindly given to us by hairdressers who heard about our ideas and were eager to help us).
We thought it would be a good idea to have a few of us in the background as extras because it would make it more clear that it is an office, where you would have people busy in the background.
Georgia also makes an appearance as an extra where she pushes a clothes rail into the room, unfortunately this was when I was filming the wide shot of Molly coming in and sitting down (when I struggled to do it correctly) and so she had to repeatedly had to come in and out pushing a clothes rail!
Emily did the tracking shot of Molly walking into the office, which was difficult because she followed Molly with a handheld camera opening the door, and walking through. Unfortunately when we watched it back we felt it looked slightly unprofessional and so when editing we might cut bits of that scene out.
One issue was that we had never visited the location before and so we were unsure of where we were going to set up the cameras and all our props, and how we should film our characters entering rooms. Although when we got there it was easy to quickly set up as we had a limited amount of time to film we just had to decide straight away.
But overall it was a successful day and we managed to get everything done that we had intended to do!