Evaluation of Shoot Day

The morning of the shoot day we arrived in the studio to our already prepared set. This was helpful as this meant we had a longer time for shooting. Costumes and makeup took much longer than expected and we did not start shooting until 11.30am. As we began shooting we found that following our storyboard was more difficult than expected and we had to simplify the overall all shots. we used three cameras to shoot our pop video, initially we intended to use two cameras, however on the day we found that usingthree would make it more efficient and also give us all more of an opportunity to get involved in specifically camera work but we also each had a chance to get involved in the track playback.

We feel that our shoot day was a great success because we completed our task of gaining all the footage which we need for our post production editing. This was an achievement because we started late and thought that we may not finish on time. This was heightened due to that our lead singer was unsure of the lyrics and timings. The band portrayed the correct image that we intended to present to our specific target audience and fitted the image created by the genre and fitted well together as a band. Although we had problems getting the band members in the costumes we wanted them to wear, due to a small conflict with the band, we were satisfied with the final look. The best thing about our day was that the sets looked great and we were really proud to have got the real amps, rather than use posters of amps as we expected.

The elements of the day that we would change having got the chance would be, to get slightly more prepared in the morning with getting the cast into the costumes that we felt were appropriate for our video. We also wished that we could have achieved all of our shots faster than we did although we were very relieved that we managed to get all of the filming done in one day because at one point this didn’t seem possible. Especially since we knew we had a lot of set changes. All in all I don’t think we would have changed very much about our shoot day because we thought that it was a success.

A lot of changes were made on the day of our shoot. We realised that our storyboard was too complex to follow and we were able to convey our concept of our video in better less complex shots. We also did not have as much time as we anticipated and therefore this added to the changes we made. We had to cut out the number of wide shots and we added in more stop motion, as this is more effective but less time consuming than some of the other shots on our storyboard. For example, we did not use the smaller amps and the build up of electric guitars in our last set. Instead we thought that we would get a more ‘studio feel’ to just have the three massive amps and the band playing.