Additionally, our singer Dani rehearsed in advance in order
to make sure that she knew the lyrics to the song and so that her lip syncing
would be in time with the music. Our
advance planning helped with the shoot day preparations as we chose our song,
much in advance before this shoot day and so therefore giving Dani a lot of
time to learn the lyrics and practice her lip syncing. This also allowed our
shoot day to run efficiently as we did not have to waste time for Dani to look
over the lyrics
Before, our shoot day we created an animatic of our story
board in order to visualise what our final product will look like. This
prepared us for our shoot day as we knew what shots and angles to shoot and how
to fit them in time with the song.
Although we prepared very well and in advance there was a
few things we could have done to make sure our film day ran more smoothly. For
example, we could have chosen a less busy street to film the clothes throwing
scene as we had to stop multiple times in order to let cars drive past safely.
This therefore took a lot of time, which was unfair on Dani as it the weather
was cold and she was not dressed warmly enough. Additionally, we had planned to
do a tracking shot, however the ground outside was too uneven and so therefore
the footage did not look professional as the footage was shaky, therefore we
had to adapt our plan to make it more fitting and professional looking.
Overall, our filming went really well as we got a lot of
shots from a range of different angles, which makes it a lot easier for us when
editing as we can choose the best footage to use in our final product.
The majority of our shots we took were planned in advance
and wrote down in our shot by shot list and on our story board. However, on the
day we did improvise and include additional shots. For example, we filmed still
images of our actors in different positions as we agreed as a group that it
would look very good and professional to place them together as jump cuts in
order to show that a lot of time has passed.
On the day of filming, we managed our actors very well as we
knew exactly what to tell them to do and where to place them as we followed our
storyboard thoroughly which allowed our shoot day to be efficient as we did not
waste time figuring out as a group what to tell our actors to do.
Overall, our location was very good as it was spacious, this
was helpful to us as it was easy to move the camera around and allowing us to
get a lot of different shots. The only problem that occurred was when we were
filming in the street which was quite busy, so we often had to stop filming to
let cars drive past. Because of this our filming of this scene took longer than
expected.
Some of the shots of which we took worked better than
expected, for example when filming the still images for our jump cuts it looked
very professional and we will definitely use it when editing our music video.
Additionally, we also filmed a shot of Dani throwing a PlayStation down the
stairs. This worked really well as we managed to capture the whole thing, which
looked very dramatic
As a group, we managed the majority of our time very well.
However, we filmed the scenes with Benjy first as we had a specific time in
which he had to leave. However, by the time we were ready to film the outdoor
scenes it was too dark and so we had to come back the next day a film those
specific scenes in daylight.
As a group, we all worked really well together and took on
equal roles to make sure our film day went as well as possible for example, we
all took turns filming and taking control of where we wanted our actors to be
positioned. We all came up with additional ideas of shots we could film and
made sure that we were all in agreement all the time so that no arguments were
caused. This teamwork helped us get a range of good shots which we could use
when we were editing.
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