Monday, 5 November 2012

GROUP: Evaluation of first shoot

Evaluation of first shooting
  • On the 29th of September, myself (Connor), Max and Jake met in Tonbridge to begin the filming process of our production. We decided to shoot the shots which will not require all three members of the group to feature in the footage we shot. As there are a small number of shots which comply with these criteria, we allocated two hours which we efficiently used to get the shots we wanted.
  • The shots we decided to shoot included that of the sketch which will feature at the very beginning of our music video where one of the band members is shown to have very little balance in his bank account to relate to the track’s name (“got no money”). We also wanted to shoot some of the shots which take place in the location which will appear to resemble a venue/performance area. The overall quality of the shots varied.
  • After watching the shots of the ATM sketch scene, we were satisfied, although we thought that the lack of lighting resulted in the shot appearing grainy. We were disappointed with the shots which we took within the venue-area (which is actually Jake’s house) for the same reason, apart from we believe that an artificial source of light such as lamps will need to be used should we shoot these shots again, which is likely.



  • We encountered a number of problems throughout the process of filming for a number of reasons. As previously mentioned, we experienced number of problems relating to a lack of light, this applied to the shots which we shot both indoors and outdoors. We will overcome the lack of light indoors, by using artificial lights, include normal desk lamps and a camera-light.
  • For all of the shots which we are planning to shoot outside, we will now look ahead and use weather forecasts to ensure that there is maximum lighting, not only is this to prevent the shots appearing grainy, but also to fit in with the meta-narrative of the band which is strongly associated with surf culture, Los Angeles (Venice Beach) etc., where there would clearly me more sun and lighting, than the climate of Britain.
  • We believe that the footage we shot (as shown in the still screenshot from the footage below does convey colour which is vibrant enough, and 'sunny' enough to relate to the band's culture of surfing and skateboarding which are clearly summer sports and would be done in sunnier climates, such a photo that we took which complies with this, is shown below.
               

  • Alhough this shoot was certainly not as successful as we would have liked it to of been, we did learn a number of things which will definitely make the futureshoots more successful. The first of these lessons was the importance of preparation.
  • Our lack of preparation meant that we were not able to shoot many of the shots which we wanted to, as we did not discuss and record which props were required for certain scenes. We also learnt that importance of treating the environment in which you are shooting, like an official set. A key example of this was when we were shooting the shots for the sketch featuring the ATM scene, and although we were alerting anyone that walked nearby that we were shooting footage for school work, people were still slightly sceptical due to the fragile nature of surveillance near ATMs due to awareness of fraud.
  •  Another example of this was when shooting in a house, where we were trying to create the illusion that the area in which we were shooting is an official music venue, due to a lack of care, when watching the footage back, it was clear amongst us (as an audience to the footage) that the footage was shot in an actual venue, the aspects that prevented us from achieving this illusion, was simple things like not putting typical household items like family photographs away. This again, was perhaps a lack of preparation.
  • We also took photographs of the people who are going to represent the band in the print pieces (digipak and adverts), we took a number of photographs for this in a number of locations, but we found that the shots which worked most effectively for the 'fly on the wall' persona that we are trying to convey, were the shots which featured the 'band members' in more natural poses, rather than shots which are clearly staged.


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