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The posts you provide of the shoot day are ok, but descriptive on reflection - you could have linked more the lighting design into the concept of mise en scene.  You have also omitted any comments on the performance/ narrative element of the MV - in particular the 'hanging scene'.  This took a lot of organising. And finally you could have commented on any significant shots that were filmed.

Also blogging requires visual evidence to support what you write - can you blog any images?

My groups roles during the shoot day

Although i was mainly involved with the lighting, during the narrative I had the opportunity to work on the dolly to shoot some tracking shots that we needed for our final piece. I was not the only one who got an opportunity to do this as Abbi also had a go on the dolly. Both of our attempts to do this came out extremely well when we looked at our shots before we started to edit. We also all took it in turn to film the behind the scenes footage that will be posted on my blog shortly.

personally, I really enjoyed my position within the group and enjoyed the opportunities that I had during the shoot day. I particularly enjoyed my Lighting position which enabled me to work closely with the main members of the technical staff that we have at Hurtwood. It placed me in a position which required alot of work and responsibility and after the shoot had finished, I felt that i had met those challenges head on.

Abbi, as the most organised of the group took control of the Director's position. This was a joint decision made by the group and we all felt that at the end of the day that she had done an incredible job. This job involved her giving stage directions to those performing in both the narrative and the performance. It also involved her looking at the screen that was attached to the camera to make sure that the shots we were getting were good enough to be used or whether or not we had to get another shot.

Izzy, who is involved in the Hurtwood Film academy took control of most of the Filming. This again was a joint decision by the group as we felt that Izzy would be able to capture the best shots within the group. Izzy also worked alongside Abbi, to make sure that the shots were as near to perfect as possible.

Finally there was Lizzy, who did an outstanding job working the playback. Lizzy's love for music made her perfect for the position of playback due to the fact that she could tell exactly where to put a new line into the film and knew exactly how the members of the band should be playing their instruments to make it as realistic as possible. During the band run through in the morning Lizzy played a vital role in positioning the band and helping them rehearse their parts within the song.

Vince lombardi once said that "Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection then we can catch excellence" and in my eyes this is extremely suited to our efforts on the day and throughout the process of forming the group and setting up the whole of our shoot day.

Evaluation of Shoot Day

The shoot of our pop video to "feeling good" by muse was on the 21st of november. Unfortunately, due to the difference in availability of members of the band, the morning was a lot more stressful than we had hoped for. This meant that we had to make sure that we got all of the shots that we wanted of all of the members of the band in a limited amount of time. We also had to set up our set in the morning due to the fact that the shoot on the friday before ours lasted longer than expected, therefore we had to set aside time to create the set the way that we wanted it to look which again took up more time.

We managed to get or set done extremely quickly and we managed to set up our lighting at the same time. The mise-en-scene that we wanted to create was the feeling of an old hotel room and we as a group felt that it was achieved very well via the use of dirty old wallpaper that we managed to scuff up a bit more aswell using tea bags and 'mould-on' spray. We used this both in the performance and narrative, however within the narrative we used dirty sheets and an old bed, to create the sense of a old, horrible hotel room.

On the morning of the shoot we all had a job to do, my job was to sort out the lighting during the set build within the morning and to sort out the cues to which lighting should come in at what points during the song and performance. The use of darkish lighting ended up being easier than expected due to the fact that it was easy to programme the light settings on the control panel that I was using. The most challenging part of the morning was getting the spotlight on the lead singer at the precise moment which was crucial to the professionalism of the shots.

Overall, the whole group worked extremely well together and as we dive head first into the editing process, the shots that we have achieved to get are looking better than we could have ever imagined. 

Feedback

A competent set of posts.  You need to account for the process of constructing the poster. You have leapt from image to final prodcut with no evaluation of how.  Also the photoshoot organisation is simply described and the blogged photo's are poorly presented.  You will need to reblog these.

Day before shoot

Today is the final day that we have to prepare for our shoot. This afternoon we are building our set in prepration for the performance on monday morning and today we are trying to fit molly within the harness and we need our theatre productions manager to help us to do this. This is of key importance due to the fact that we need Jason to do a risk assessment before we use the harness and because it is an important aspect of our video. in regards to building the set, we need to move the walls and place them in an area we think is most suited to our production. We need to also put the bed into the room, and make sure that everything is in the shooting suite when we need it including bed side table, table lamp, paintings etc. finally, we need to mess up the wall paper to create a dirty/old room

Final Photos for the Digipack

After the photoshoot today, we had come to an agreement on the final pictures that we wanted to use for our final digipack. we edited them, decided where to put them on the digipak and cropped them.

HEAD SHOTS OF BAND

 

                                                   

                           

SHOTS FOR INLAY OF DIGIPAK

 

shot of lead singer for inside of digipak:

 

Photo Shoot Day

Photoshoot

Today we did our photoshoot and thankfully, it went extremely well. Due to the fact that we had already planned our shots, we went straight into doing the shots rather than messing around creating ideas and wasting time. We managed to get all of the band members into the studio on time which i was very pleased with as it showed we were organised and had a real idea of how to organise effectively. After taking the shots, we decided to edit our shots to black and white so it looks more professional rather than in colour.

SHOTS FOR FRONT COVER OF DIGIPAK

MID SHOTS AND BODY SHOTS

pianist

singer

        

bassist

drummer

guitarist

SHOTS FOR INSIDE OF DIGIPAK