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The post is a diary entry for what happened on the day, rather than a reflective account of the production day.  There is also evident in the account how you overcame the problems posed, but I would have liked to have seen more detail on key shots scenes, in particularly with the 'hanging scene'.  More reflection is needed on the shots of the band's performance, contrasted with the shoot of the performance.

Photos from our Shoot Day

Due to the fact that our photographer did not turn up, we all took some pictures on our phones to upload to our blogs.

Here is our guitarist and pianist in our set whilst we were getting a two-shot of them.

Here is a picture of me operating the camera and getting a close up of the base guitar. I had to keep moving the camera to make sure he did not go out of shot.

This is the monitor which was connected to the camera which enabled us and other people to see how the shots were looking and point out anything which needed to change.

This is the machine used to operate the lighting changes. We had 4 different lighting changes during our track.

This is another photo of me getting a shot of our base guitarist.

Here is the camera we were using throughout our shoot. We had another one the same close by which we used when for example we needed to keep the first camera in a certain position on the dolly, In that case, we just swapped the memory cards.

Evaluation of Shoot Day.

So we have finished our shoot day and it went a lot better than I expected. The morning of the day was quite stressful as we found out that our two narrative characters were having to do an Art Coursework day, and although our girl thought she could get out of it the boy was not so sure. Thus, we thought we may have lost our whole narrative and were having to think about last minute decisions as we had not found out until the day. On top of this, our guitarist had forgotten to tell his teachers that he was not going to be in lesson due to a Music Video shoot, despite the fact he had told us he was allowed. We therefore spoke to his teachers and most of them were okay but it seemed like he was not going to be let out of one of his lessons which started at 11:50. We tried our hardest to get him out of it but it was not going to happen so we decided we just had work very hard on the performance shots and get them all done before this time. In addition, we still had the stress to finish building our set as the group that were in the studio on Friday did not finish until very late and so we by the time we got in there we had 20 minutes to get going. We made a mutual decision to not put up our wallpaper and just make changes to the wallpaper that the previous group had had. We then just about got time to throw tea bags at the wallpaper and open up some tea bags and rub them on the wall. We also made a few rips in the wallpaper and had some mould spray which we sprayed. This made the set look more like a skanky hotel room which is what we wanted. However, this is just about all we got done on Friday afternoon and so we had to finish it all Monday morning.

In the end, we managed to get all of the performance shots done before 11:50 which is when we were losing our guitarist. However we still needed to get a tracking shot of the whole band so we asked everybody to meet back in the studio for 1 to get this done, after a lunch break from 12:30. Our two performance characters were both in there by 1:30 and had the rest of the day to film as they had been let out by their art teachers after finishing their coursework. We did the tracking shots of them first as we had the dolly already set up from the narrative. Will Edgley and Abby Douetil and me all had a go on the dolly getting the shots we needed, whilst Lizzy Ward Thomas was on playback making sure we had the right part of the song for that tracking shot.

Here is a picture of Will Edgley pushing Luke whilst we were setting up the dolly.

Apart from the tracking shots in which we all had a go, I was on the camera most of the day. I would get the camera set up, find a shot which I thought looked nice and then ask the rest of my group what they thought. The camera I was using was linked to the monitor, which is where Abbi Douetil was standing most of the time and she would therefore give me feedback and what would look better inside the shot until we got it right and ready to shoot. Will Edgley started off on playback but then changed to pushing the dolly and so Lizzy Ward Thomas took over on playback for the rest of the day. At the same time as being on camera, I also helped with the production and therefore was always making sure we had the right people in the studio for the right time. If I thought we were missing somebody or there was somebody there who we didn't need I would shout to one of my group who weren't busy to find that person or whatever it may be. Abbi Douetil did all of the make up for the band and narrative and helped Molly (our main girl) with her costume and putting on the harness which was needed for the hanging scene.

Unfortunatley, the photography student which we had asked to come and take pictures did not turn up on the day. We tried our best to find a substitute photographer but most people were busy or did not have their cameras in school. So, as a last minute alternative, we asked for a second camera on which we could film little bits of what we were doing to make a 'Making Of' video which we have already started on and will blog once its finished.



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There is some proficient blog posts here with clear reflection.  However I do feel that the poster design needs further development, particularly with font design.  Good well organised photoshoot, but the presentation needs to be reviewed - try Flickr or google documents to present photo's.  You need to consider teh design of your blog more closely.

1 day to go.

There is 1 day left before our shoot. We still have a lot to organise, especially our set and props. We have changed the type of microphone we are using, and we are now using a 1930s microphone. We have been to pick up both the new microphone and the harness for the hanging scene from Al, the theatre productions manager. There are people filming in the studio this morning but they should be finished by 3pm and that's when we can go in to start setting up for our shoot.

On top of this, we have to fit the harness to Molly (the girl who is getting hanged in the video). Thus, we have contacetd her and she is free at 3pm to do a test run for the hanging scene.

I went into the studio to see the set of the group before us so I could see what we will have to change. Their room is more rectangular so we will want more depth and less width. They have wallpaper up but it is clean so we are going to throw teabags at the walls and peel bits of it off to make it look more like a scabby hotel room.

FINAL POSTER

After a lot of work, here is our final promotional poster:

 

We kept almost everything the same in the final poster as we had planned for in the first draft. We added a sticker saying 'best seller' in the top left hand corner. We aso darkened the colours in the photo so it is almost black and white to give it the mysterious dark feel.

FINAL PHOTOS FOR DIGIPAK

After the photoshoot today, we decided on the final pictures we wanted to use for our digipak. We decided on the front of the digipak, the photo of the lead singer on the inside, and the single pictures we are going to edit together for the inlay. We then edited them, cropped them and put them into black and white. Here are the final photos for the digipak:

HEAD SHOTS OF BAND

 

                                                   

                           

SHOTS FOR INLAY OF DIGIPAK

 

SHOT FOR INSIDE OF DIGIPAK

PHOTOSHOOT

Earlier today we did our photoshoot. I think it went really well and we got all of the shots we wanted in a short amount of time as everybody had to go off and do other things. We edited the main photo's which we want for the Digipak and other photos we know we want to use. Here are the extras photos which we may not need but have them just in case:


SHOTS FOR FRONT COVER OF DIGIPAK

MID SHOTS AND BODY SHOTS

pianist

singer

        

bassist

drummer

guitarist

SHOTS FOR INSIDE OF DIGIPAK