Shoot Day

We began shooting the music video at 9:00am on the 19th of November. On the evening on the 18th of November we had put together the lighting plan and the first set that we would start off with in order to save time the following day. The set did not take long to build all we needed was to put the black curtains round the studio, to put the instruments in place and to make a final decision on the lighting that we would like to have in order to create out desired mood. The evening before the shoot we also made one very important decision that would completely change the narrative of our video this was to remove the element that involved the office scenes with the main character in the narrative (Amy) being sexually harassed by her boss. We used a digital camera, the Sony Z1 and DSR 570, which are very mobile and this allowed us to vary our shots and therefore have a bigger variety to choose from when it came to editing. I found them rather complicated to start off with and we were getting behind schedule because we were not completely confident on the cameras but after a bit of time being showed them by Guy Stanley our teacher were able to use them and after an hour it seemed very simple and we began getting shots much faster and got back on schedule. We used green screen a lot in our video because what we wanted to achieve could not be done on location or created in the studio so the best alternative was to use the green screen. For example, some shots had the main killer girl in the narrative (Amy) on roof tops and jumping massive distances this can only be done on green screen for safety reasons. Although some effects that we used could have been done without use of the green screen, for example the blood splattering effects we used, it is possible to achieve this look without use of a green screen. However I do believe that it adds to the overall atmosphere of our video having the quite obviously synthetic backgrounds and gives it a more “sin city” vibe. Not only does it give us the unique look but it also meant we could achieve the shots which we would otherwise not have had the means to get. I believe that our shoot day ran very well indeed. The reason for the day running so well I think is due to the preparation we had done with the call sheets, set and lighting plans and story boards and also because we had used the previous evening to plan for the shoot and this meant we were able to maximise out time getting shots on the day of the shoot rather then setting up the studio therefore we had more footage to use when editing. I was unsure weather or not the shoot day had actually been a success until we had uploaded the footage onto Final Cut Pro and we actually viewed to footage. The amount of shots we had to choose from was enormous and the quality of them was also very impressive.