Evaluation of shoot day

I felt that our shoot day we to plan and that we kept the schedule reasonably well, although the make up took a lot longer than we thought which did throw our schedule back a bit but we still manage to catch up as somethings were faster than others.
The day before the shoot there wasnt a lot we could actually do to set up as we needed the black screens before we added the ink and scratch into them. But we made one of our sets which was the scratched ink which we ended up hanging over the top of the blank wall.



We used cardboard to create the greyish scratched effect, and instead of using ink we used black acryic paint with water which worked better and dried faster.
The day before I also ran through the lyrics with our main artist to make sure she was confident with them as it would looked much more professional if the lip sinking worked, and because she isnt english she had some problem pronouncing some words. We also made sure that we had all the props ready and practiced the make up and dance routine.
As a group we were confident for our shoot day as we had a lot of time, because we were the last group to shoot, so we could practice and test things like the set, dance, make up and made sure that we had everything we needed and knew exactly what we wanted so there was no time waisting.

Because the makeup took longer than we thought to went into our schedule, although we planned to do the make up straight after breakfast before the shoot started. We just changed the schedule around and shot the dancers first as the had the least makeup on so it gave us time to make sure the twins and artist had the right makeup we wanted. We also put up our set hanging up the sheets on the blank wall in the morning ready to shoot. As well as testing the lighting effects and colour of the filters to make sure they were right. 

When we started the shoot we had a huge blank wall which we were using to clip up the different sheets as we needed the ink wall, the scratched wall and the blank wall for ben to right on. This made it easier because after every scene was done we just unclip the sheet and attached the one we needed onto it. The concept of our idea that we had in our heads was the same as it looked for the shoot, this is because we spent a lot of time testing out the set with different mediums of inks and types of walls to do it on so we knew it would work.
Through out the day we manage to divide the up the roles so that we all had a chance to try out every role, because the make up was taking a long time, me and alicia helped with the make up ( we had organised a makeup artist to help us as we needed it to look professional) but it was taking too long so we help with that, whilst chessie was running through the dance with the dancers making sure they knew what they were doing.
The roles were divided out during the day to make sure that we all got to try out different things. In the morning Me and Alicia helped with the makeup to save time (we had organised a make up artist) whilst Chessie was running through the dance with the dancers making sure they knew what they were doing.  But through out the day we changed over different roles, like director, camera man and recording with iPad and standing on the side of the stage shouting to the artist and dancers what to do. This meant that we could all understand what it was like and also learn something.
We found some old smoke bombs during the filming which we last minute decided could work for the shooting on location in the woods. We were surprised as we were not sure how they would work and only took them to test, but, they ended up looking really edgy on the camera. Another thing that went better than I thought would was Ben's scene we managed to make it look really cool, we held the camera in one hand and pen in the other so it looked like the camera was the pen. This scene looked really cool on the big screen whilst playing it back.

Our actors were surprisingly good as we were not sure that the lip sinking would be good or they could be awkward but on the day the atmosphere was really up beat which meant that everyone was comfortable with everything that they were doing. As a team when we were directing the actors we had to make sure that we were really controlling and told them exactly what we wanted them to do otherwise they would have no idea and could make the video look awkward.
I think that after todays shoot that the editing to should go well, this is because our group worked sufficiently and close and we all shared roles making it easier for all of us.


This is a video of the rough cut which we made the day after the shoot.