acount of shoot day

This is our set as we started with it is simple and bear to suggest the band have just moved in. we have situated the band in casual positions because we wanted them to look casual.

This is a photo is from the last part of the shoot, we changed the room from black to white buy screwing off boards we had fixed on. We then brought in some huge marshal amp speakers, which we were very grateful to get hold of. We also added a microphone and stand two floor spot lights. This set up is when the room changes from student messy to big star artists and I think this studio set represents it perfectly.

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 using three 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 were being 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. 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.

We made a lot of changes to our pre production plans such as the beginning. our first plan was to have a seven second silent intro to the song of the band walking in, we changed it to them walking in to the music and the position of the band we changed to formal band positions into very casual positions such as our lead singer laying on the floor. We didn’t really stick to the shots in our story board because we found that some shots were to hard to create and when we had the band visually in front of us we thought of new and more exiting ways of making the shots work. We changed the props around because aging the visual aspect of having the set and props in front of us showed us what looked best on screen and worked with the positions of the band. I am very happy with the changes that were made during shoot day as I think it made the over all result better and more visually interesting.