Our performance shoot took place in our school’s black photography studio, on the 7th of October. We set up three cameras and made sure to film a simple portraiture shoot from different angles. Moreover, we ensured that we had a range of close ups, mid shots and long shots. Here we were able to really experiment with a variety of angles and therefore this resulted in us achieving a lot of footage. Furthermore, we also decided to incorporate a few different techniques to make the footage a little more appealing to watch. These including things like tilts, pans, zooms and unfocusing/ re-focusing the camera lens. We believe these simple skills will allow the footage to become much more visually interesting for the audience.

Despite how well the shoot went (as we maintained the footage we were hoping for), there were a few incidents that did not go quite according to plan. This caused some disruption in our filming and therefore a little time was wasted. Firstly, one of our cameras ran out of battery and so we had to go back to the media department to grab another one. Another camera had a slight red tint to it, which we did not know how to adjust. However, despite this we realised this could easily be fixed in the editing stage of our product.  Also, our actor didn’t know a few of the words leading to some of the footage being unusable.

Targets:

• Ensure all the cameras are charged.
• Set up equipment in advance, so if anything goes wrong (for example the red tint) we have enough time to properly sort it.
• Establish whether or not all the lyrics have been learnt before shooting.