Wednesday 24 January 2018

Account of Shootday 3

For our last shoot day, we arranged to film in school as they have a studio which was available for us to use during filming. In order to prepare for this, we picked a date and time where all members of my group and Dani had a free period in order to make sure that we did not disrupt our school day. We set up the studio in advance with a black curtain and a fan for effect. This enabled us to film quickly and efficiently.

Our singer Dani, rehearsed in advance to make sure that she knew the lyrics to the song and so that she could lip sync professionally. This allowed our shoot day to run efficiently as we did not have to waste time for Dani to try and learn the lyrics

Our Animatic was very helpful and allowed us to prepare for our shoot day as I allowed us to visualise our final product. It also saved us time as we knew what shots and camera angles we needed to film and where to place them within our final footage.

Although we prepared very well in advance, there was a few issues that arrived on the day. For example, we had planned in advance to use a green screen, however Dani was wearing a Khaki Jumper. From this, we therefore had to improvise and use a black screen which we will edit within the music video

Overall, filming went really well as we managed to film all of the shots we need, we managed to film with a range of different shots such as high angle, low angle and wide angle which makes it easier for us to edit as we will not run out of footage and so therefore we will not have to re film or re use shots throughout our final music video

The majority of the shots that we filmed were planned in advance when we created our shot by shot list and animatic story board. On this day we followed our story board exactly, which was another advantage of our advanced planning. Because, of this we did not feel that we had to improvise any shots as we had enough footage for our final product

On the day of filming, we managed our actress very well as we followed our story board, allowing us to tell them exactly what they needed to do. Dani (our actress) was very cooperative, allowing our shoot day to run efficiently

As we filmed in school, there was no problems with the location, as we had all the equipment already available to us such as the lighting, cameras and the microphone. The school is a safe environment, meaning that there was minimum risk to ourselves and the equipment.

Some of the shots of which we took worked better than expected, for example, when filming Dani front on with a close up, it looked very professional as we were able to capture her star image due to the fact that she was staring directly at the camera and was the only person in the shot. This worked really well as we could clearly see her lip syncing

As a group, we managed our time very well and we filmed the footage in a short amount of time. This was due to our advanced planning and good cooperation from our actress


As a group, we all worked really well together and took on equal roles to make sure our shoot day went as smoothly and as well as possible, we all took turns filming and controlling the lighting and all added equal amounts of input. This teamwork allowed us to get a good range of shots such as the variety of angles which we could choose from and use when we begin to edit.


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