Shoot Day

Today is shoot day and I am feeling much more relaxed about the music video than yesterday. Before we could start shooting we all agreed to come to school much earlier than usual so we could be prepared and get the artist ready. At approximately 8:40 we were doing her makeup and we made it minimal, as we said we would previously.

When we got into the studio it looked like this:

It was what we were exactly expecting, especially the colour scheme of the strip lights.

Our first set up:

I loved this set up the most because it looked amazing on the camera's viewfinder and the colours were so vivid, exactly what we wanted to achieve.

Our second set up:

This set was created by the set designers, we had some input on the led strip lights on the arches, but they suggested that we colour them red. We agreed because it will look good colour scheme wise in post-production.

Our third set up:

This set up wasn't what I expected, I didn't think they would have slats, I thought it would be a big white screen without any black lines interrupting the shadows. Regardless, the blue gels looked amazing and the dancers did really well motion wise.

Our fourth set up:

This set up was the one of our favourites because there was a really pure light,  making the end of the music video look quite contrasted to the music video as a whole, but still having an element of darkness to it.

Evaluation of shoot day:

We divided up the roles on shoot day: Franek was the choreographer, Hope was the cameraman, Miranda did playback and I was the director. 

Franek's choreography:

I personally thought that I kept everything organised and made sure that if something was wrong I would say something and sort it out too. I also brought my Canon DSLR camera to the shoot and took some professional pictures of the production that we could potentially use for the digipak!

Problems wise, it took much longer than anticipated to set up the second element. There were at least 30 minutes of just hanging around, making us run over time by 20 minutes. Also, due to this time being lost, we couldn't use our projections element, therefore making us make the decision of cutting it out of the whole production. The most successful part of the shoot was the first set up, there is a lot of footage we could use when editing for lip sync. I wish that the 4th set up went better because there was a confusion on how we wanted it to look between us and the lighting crew. Nevertheless, we still achieved what we wanted to. Managing the talents was easy, Honor did a great job at performing and portrayed the role of our star image perfectly. I am looking forward to getting to look at the raw footage and editing it. Overall, our group worked perfectly as a team, all of us getting a chance at doing something on shoot day, no one was not involved in the production of our music video.

I feel like many lessons have been learned about time management, and having other peoples opinions really strengthens a production to make it look the best it can be. If we were to have another shoot, we would also make sure to make the call sheet more organised because we told the dancers to come at 11:30, when at that time we were still shooting the second element, and the third element had not been set up. We, therefore, had to delay their slot, which could have been very inconvenient to them.