Filming 'The Breakfast Club'

A few weeks back we filmed our own take on one of the scenes from the film 'The Breakfast Club'. It was a fun task and the whole class took part in different roles to create the scene. Some of the class acted in the scene, whilst others filmed, directed or edited.
I learnt that it is crucial to involve many different camera shots to succeed in making a good film. If you keep on using the same old angles then the viewing can become boring for the audience. An effective camera shot can sometimes even play with the viewers emotions by adding different affects. For example if you were filming a thriller and you wanted to use the typical shot of filming a character from someone else's perspective i.e from behind a tree looking towards the character, then this gives the feeling of someone watching them which creates tenseness. Although we didn't use shots like this because 'The Breakfast Club' isn't a thriller, we still used a good range of angles so that there was variety.
I also learnt that you have to be very precise when cutting between shots. For example if you were filming someone walking towards a door and pulling a handle down, but you then decided that you wanted to film them walking through the door from the other side then you have to make sure that you get the camera in the correct place and height so that it will flow fluently. This is also the same for editing. You must make sure that when cutting down a shot that it blends in nicely with the next shot otherwise it will not flow and will seem jumpy. This is not the effect you want.
In editing the scene I learnt that there are many different affects you can use on iMovie. It is all down to personal preforations of the editor and what he/she thinks is best. However, editing is a very important part of creating a film and a badly edited film usually means, an unsuccessful one too!