Shoot day evaluation

 Before the shoot day, I prepared the props that I was supposed to bring (posters, my record player, vinyls and some fairy lights). I also prepared the plan for the shoot day that I had written weeks ago. When I woke up on the shoot day, I felt quite nervous as I was scared to forget filming some of the shots that we had planned and also nervous that we don’t have enough jars for the beach set. However, when we all met I realised we were not missing anything and that we were properly prepared for the shoot. Before we started filming, we made sure everyone was dressed with the costumes for the shack set. For the makeup, what Kate was wearing was already perfect so we didn’t need to do her makeup, and for the band, we decided they don’t need any make-up either. After that we brought out props to the set, but surprisingly we did not need to use any of the props as the shack set was already looking perfect. We only had one problem before starting to film. Although I told everyone in my group a week before, on the costume fit, that there needs to be guitarist and a bassist, no one listened and the bassist brought a guitar with her. Lily and I still fixed the problem last minute. We went around the campus running to find a base guitar as fast as possible so that we could start filming. Finally we managed to find one and we were ready to start shooting.

On the shoot day, everyone got to be one of the roles. At first Alex was the in charge of the camera, Lily was the director, Pandora was in charge of the timer on the Ipad and I was positioning the actors on the set and helping with the lighting. After a while we changed to me being in change of the camera, Alex holding the Ipad , Pandora being the director and Lily positioning people of the set, and so on. The role I enjoy the most was definitely filming and I wish I got to do it more, but other people wanted to do it as well. I think I did really well when it got to filming, especially when I filmed the handheld shot because I actually ended up using most of the shots of what I had filmed when I edited the music video. However, I must say I did not do that well when it came to directing, because I kept forgetting  what I was supposed to say. Overall we had no main problems, except missing a base guitar at the beginning of the shoot day which Lily and I managed to solve. We also had a problem with the drummer’s acting because he felt really uncomfortable, but I somehow managed to solve this when I was in charge of placing actors on set. What I did was dancing with them while everything was filmed and I was looking particularly and the drummer, trying to reming him to smile. In between the filming I went and talked to the actors telling them what to think about when we are filming and just enjoy themselves. I think the part of the shoot day was most successful was when Alex and I got to film the handheld shots of the band because when editing I realised those shots saved the whole music video due to how important movement in when filming and those were the shots that had the most movement.

I feel that as a team we did not work that well. Some times I felt Alex and I were more excited and implicated. I also had the feeling we didn’t coordinate with each other as some people were out of energy. We worked the best as a team when Pandora was the director, Lily in charge of the iPad, Alex in charge of the lighting or placing people and I was filming. What I learned was that on the shoot day you have to have a lot of energy, follow you plan and make the most of the time you have. I regret not adding more movement in some of the shots but that could not be done when everyone was filming because everyone had a different style, so I think we should have each had a fixed role. I also regret not filming the bird eye view I planned on when I did the test shoot in Imovie and that was because we were did not use the list of shots that I planned a week before which was a result of not being 100% prepared. In conclusion, I would plan everything even more before a shoot day.