Monday, 7 November 2016

Shoot day



ROLES DURING THE DAY: 

ELOISE : DIRECTOR

BEN : CAMERA 
HAYDON : PLAYBACK
DASHA : FLOOR MANAGER

Overall the shoot day was a success.
I first started by helping set up the day before the shoot day. As seen in the video, I painted the DJ set and put it together, as well as set up the lights so that we could be ready to start promptly in the morning.

I was very prepared for the shoot day. The night before I had rehearsed with the artist Genny to make sure she knew her lines. We had bought food to make sure that we kept both the staff and the artists happy as it was going to be a long day. I also made sure that all the tiny pieces of the costume were there and ready to go. I also pre warned Genny to come in with no makeup, wet hair and no jewellery so that she could be made up in the morning by the makeup artist. This made organisation easier when we were faced with the power cut difficulty. Despite this being our biggest problem, as soon as the lights came on, we were prepared and ready to go as we were organised.

Once we got shooting, the studio looked exactly as we had envisioned it to look. Specifically with the artist set, we definitely achieved our concept idea as the corridor made her seem trapped and isolated, which was the main part of our concept.
I think one thing that I particularly excelled in on the shoot day was my direction. I had been pre warned that it was very important to make sure you know what you want and to help guide the artist as they need guidance as the obviously don't know what you want. I ensured that throughout the day I was always communicating with the artists and Ben(On camera), to help try and achieve the look/concept we were trying to achieve.

 I think the most successful part of our shoot day was probably the DJ set. As there was quite a lot happening during this particular performance, it was important for us to capture as much as possible. With such a short shoot time frame, we managed to capture more than enough footage and we even managed to get the crane out and shoot some aerial shots of the DJ set.

However, I do wish that we would have been able to shoot the whole of the video as the energy was very high on that day and it would have been perfect time to have shot everything. However this was made impossible due to power cuts and time limits.

I think we worked very well as a team as we all gave each other opportunities to make inputs and explore different roles. I would say that Ben and I worked particularly well together as we both knew the concept back to front and we both wanted very similar things. This meant that as he was mainly on camera and I was mainly director, the communication was very successful. 

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