Construction Post 3: Week 3 production

WHAT WAS ON THE AGENDA?

1. Completion of the studio shoot week

STUDIO SHOOT WEEK OVERVIEW

Production week 3 was the intense studio shoot week which we had long been preparing for. The schools high tech and professional studio was well equipped, it had an available sound desk, a portable lighting kit as well as overhead industrial lights. All this made the process to creating a high quality music video much easier. The shoot week went incredibly smoothly with no major complications, as a result our expected 5 day shoot week had turned into a 3 day shoot week, this implication was as a result of the late nights and because of the little amount of set-ups we had. Below are the 4 set ups that we used for our studio shoot.

REFLECTIONS

Below are three problems that we faced during this week.

> Problem 1: The repetitive characterisation issue

As we had dealt with this complication before and consulted with both our media teachers we now knew how to go forward in terms of extras. Instead of using the bad footage of the extras from earlier in our production week we had asked two girls from our media class, Meera and Sian, who we knew were experienced, understood direction and knew the level of professionalism we expected them to uphold. They were perfect and efficient and the clips we had produced were a huge improvement to the previous group shots.
Below is a clip of Meera and Sian which we used.

> Problem 2: Aesthetic issues

When filming our siren shot set up, we used a curtain to create the effect of a black background. However, there were many unavoidable creases in the curtain which ruined the overall appearance of the shot making it look unprofessional. To overcome this issue we had two people standing on either side of the shot pulling the curtain towards them to straighten it out - this was effective as when we watched the clip back, no creases could be spotted.

> Problem 3: Shot types

After a mid-week consultation with our media teacher, it had come to our attention that a lot of our shots were static and stagnant which lost the natural and loose feel that we wanted to cultivate in our music video. Consequently we got back up to the studio and reshot everything with only handheld shots so that we had more fluid content to cut back to. This proved very useful in post production when we wanted variety.

MY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SHOOT

1. I was the lead singer in our artist duo 'Cruze' and as a result the main focus of the production - this meant that I lip synced throughout and acted.
2. I was in charge of all extras - I gathered them to participate in our music video and briefed them on what costume they needed to bring, the health and safety regulations, how they were meant to act and overall what they were expected to do - I made a group chat for this
3. I directed many of the performance shots as well as narrative shots for example 1:42-1:54
4. I provided the costume in the music video
5. I filmed handheld performance shots
6. I helped set up the studio in the beginning of the shoot day as well as helped set up the different set ups.