Shoot 1 feelings and thoughts

I went to our schools very own black photography studio to film our first performance shoot. The studio was perfect because we could paint our goth themes on the screen with the deep black background and it helped her grungy costume and makeup paired with other aspects of Mise en scene to stand out perfectly.

In my opinion, the shoot went reasonably well. I’m happy with our shots although some are fuzzy, the good ones make up for it and there is always the ability to do a reshoot in our spare time.

The mistake we made was thinking we could film the whole song in one. The song, being four minutes long should have been shot in two half’s each time to allow our star to take a break, catch her breath so not to wear her out. A shot I definitely think we needed was a well framed extreme close up of our star’s mouth when lip syncing the lyrics. Coming in close with the camera is the best way to evoke emotion.

Looking onward, I will focus on more clear directing to bring the best acting out of my star. I have considered that a main aspect of 80s synth and pop genre music the dance routines always crop up in the music videos.

Focusing forward, my group member and I will be arranging a reshoot. I will home in on the movement of my actress to depict her as a moody teen character. When editing the footage I will do my best job at editing to the beat maintaining the lip-sync and upholding and preserving my goth teen grunge star image.