Film Shoot Reflection

We went prepared with our storyboard and shot list, but on the day we had to improvise some features we did not consider beforehand. We had watched video footage of the walk down to the beach and been shown an image of the inside of the shop as preparation, but hadn't actually been to see the location in person until the actual day (a major planning flaw). We had been unable to get our hands on one of our props, the open/close door sign, but resolved this by deciding to settle for having the graphics show up on the small circular window on the door. For our actors name we planned to have them show up on surfboards as the actor flicked through them. Instead, we had them look up at different surfboards placed around a part of the shop we weren't aware of initially. We also had an issue with the radio, as it wasn't brought on the day. Instead, we figured it was more common for teenagers to listen to music via a mobile device, so used my iPhone as the prop for the "music by" title to be displayed on. The rest went according to plan until we were filming the part where a car was meant to drive past, and realised it was a quiet road. We improvised by filming the scene anyway and agreeing that that the car wasn't necessary to the shot. We also found filming the actors feet difficult as it needed to be a point of view shot, so we got our actress to temporarily hold the camera whilst I pulled focus.
During the editing process which Sam is working on with my help, we discovered that we couldn't use a long take of the shop as it lasted too long, so instead changed it to loads of short shots with straight cuts in between to make the transitions as smooth as possible and practically unnoticeable so as not to distract attention away from the credits being shown on the screen.