The shoot we performed was not very successful compared to the shoot we did for our performance. The day before we planned to film the narrative, the female actor which we were going to use pulled out. This meant that we needed to find an actress quickly. The actress we found was able to help however she was an IB student and therefore would not be able to join the first half of shooting, however she was still able to help. We told her all information that she needed ready for the shoot.

 

 

 

 

On the day of filming we proceeded to our location and filmed all the sections with our male actor, we then waited for our actress to arrive, however she was late as traffic was heavy. Once she arrived we proceeded to film all the narrative, we followed our storyboard and filmed efficiently. Time got the better of us however and the light soon started to fade leaving us to barely finish what we had planned to film.

 

 

 

 

Upon reviewing our footage we had collected we were unhappy with shot which we had gathered and also felt we were missing story which we could have filmed. This left some of our narrative unusable. It was because of these problems that we decided to perform a re-shoot of the narrative.

From our experience filming our narrative we have agreed upon some targets for future shoots:

1. Remember to do multiple shots of each angle, to reduce our chances of needing to do a re-shoot
2. Organise paperwork, such as our production meeting agendas more effectively, so that they are easier to make sense of chronologically, to increase our efficiency on location
3. Don’t rush the shoot, or things will be forgotten, such as those additional angles. This will assist us in making less mistakes on shoot

 

For us as a group to improve we need to present our products to others so that we may improve or edit upon what we have. So to help us with our performance for our music video we presented our rough cut to students, all of which fall within our target audience, and asked them to watch our music video and then point out what they liked about the rough cut, then to add any criticism that they had, or if there was anything we could improve upon, such as shot variety or mise-en-scene.

To hear the feedback we received listen to the click below.

We placed our rough cut onto YouTube so to link it to our blogs and also for others to watch. In the comments section of our rough cut we receive feedback from a previous student to the school who now studies media at university and also from our teacher.

These comments, along with the feedback by students will allow us to edit our performance ready for our final Draft.

Too see the Feedback Left by Steve Reed, A Previous Student, and Jess Cobb, Our Teacher, Click the images below.

Upon returning from our performance shoot we use Adobe Premiere Pro in order to compile all the footage which we had filmed in order to create a performance rough cut. At this point the rough cut still contains problems such as out of sync lyrics and unbalanced shots, however, the purpose of the rough cut is not to have a perfect performance video, but, to have a rough estimate of what our performance will look like once finally edited, it also allows use to present our performance to students in order to receive feedback on our performance to see whether there is more we could add to the performance.

The rough cut also allows us to add narrative once we have filmed it in order to see whether the narrative fits the performance and pace of the song.

To see our performance rough cut, Click the Video below.

Our performance shoot took place from 11am until 3pm which gave us long enough to shoot all the shots which we intended and some extra shots too. We filmed the performance a total of 5 times from 2 cameras each time giving us a total of 10 angles to work with for our editing. Once these clips are mixed with the narrative it should give us plenty of moments to work with without us recycling various angles.

On the day, during the filming of the final section of the song we decided upon a different way for filming the disheveled band members, rather than filming the same section a total of 5 times, each with a different mise-en-scene and the change being subtle we decided to film the ending where the band look normal, an object is then thrown towards the camera to cover the band, and the moment the object exits the frame the band have changed into their final disheveled form, the change still happening, however it is much more obvious.

The filming went smoothly during the majority of the day apart from the first 30 minutes of filming. my partner and I decide to arrive and hour early in order to scout items from a greenhouse that we could use for our performance, we would then transport them to the filming location, located a few hundred meters away, however, upon beginning to move the items we realized that they were too heavy for us to lift that far, and we struggled to move the items. Later on we found a wheelbarrow which enabled us to work more efficiently, however it meant that setting up took longer than expected. The item that caused us the most trouble was an old sewing machine which was too heavy for us to carry by hand, and was also too big to fit through the door of the greenhouse.

 

 

 

 

Due to the problem with the props for the mise-en-scene within the performance, the creation of the guitar and bass also took extra time.

From these problems we faced we have agreed upon targets for any future shoots which we plan:

1. Plan well in advance and make sure everything is covered in it
2. Organised the props to the best of your ability before the shoot
3. Meet the deadline for the beginning of the shoot so as to not hold up the actors.