Group: Reflection on Shoot 2

On Saturday 7th November, we went down to Brighton with 3 other cast members in order to shoot the narrative part of our music video. We used Katie's DSLR camera and her tripod, as well as using Mel's SJ4000 to take some POV shots.

Katie's role during the shoot was be in charge of her part of the equipment. She had the main role behind the camera when filming and taking photographs. She also managed to find people to be our cast for that particular day.
Mel's role was to direct the cast as to what they should be doing in the shot, as well as assisting with the filming and doing some shots herself. She also helped decide what locations in Brighton we should film at.

Our storyboard was quite useful during our shoot as it helped us to be able to work out when to go to what location so it all made sense. We did have to make some changes to the storyboard as we were not able to film the friends arriving together as we arrived in separate cars, and we also couldn't get a POV shot on one of the rides we wanted due to it being shut. However, we did stick to the basic storyline shown on our storyboard.

Our best shots include the POV shot on the ride, as well as the shots in the photo-booth.
The shots that proved problematic were the shots on the beach. This is because it was horrific windy and rainy weather which was not what we wanted. Therefore filming on the beach proved very difficult.

Our biggest challenge of the day was dealing with the weather. Ideally, we would have preferred it to be a brighter day, however the unpredictable British weather chose to rain constantly all day. This therefore dramatically changed the look of our shots, as well as making it extremely difficult to film. We had to cover the camera in a plastic bag so it didn't get wet and break. We are hopefully going to try and improve these shots by including a filter over the top of them so they look a bit happier.

Whilst in Brighton, we took photos for our digipak. We knew we wanted to include Brighton in the digipak so we tried to take as many photographs as we could so we could choose the best ones to use. Due to the bad weather, we were not able to get the shots we had originally planned so we had to do some quick thinking on the day of what photographs we could include.

Our next steps in terms of filming and photography is to re-film with our lead singer, Tiff, in front of a blue screen. This is because our Brighton footage did not come out the way we had hoped so we are going to have more performance than narrative in our music video now. This therefore means we have to make our shots of the lead singer more interesting which we will try to do in front of the blue screen. We also plan to take some more photographs of our lead singer for the digipak of her looking more happy as it's quite an upbeat song so we would like to show that on the digipak.