Prior to our shooting day, we painted our set and got hold of all our costumes and props that we would need for the video. We spent a day in the studio previous to filming. During this day we painted the pillars and boxed for our set and built the steps along with setting up the white wash curtain, we then found all of our cast and chose which costumes fitted and suited them the best. all this preparation helped us alot and made the shooting day run alot smoother.
We started the day at 8.30 and had a group meeting to plan out the day and check everything was ready to go until 8.50 when our cast arrived at the studio ready for the days filming. We began by getting our first morning shoot ready, our cast came in on time and we were ready to start.
The day seemed to be becoming more exiting by the minute; we all had our shifts of working the play back, directing the cast and the camera and checking the light balances between each scene. The morning was taken up of our performance and the dance sections; we had already decided that in post we were to do a lot in silhouette so to make a crisp like we decided to film a lot of the dance more on green screen.
One of the problems of the shoot was a general felling of nervousness amongst the group which unfortunately travelled to our dancers, this made them feel a little uncomfortable, after realising our mood was affecting theirs we had a short group meeting about how we were ok and how we needed to make sure that our cast were ok and not apprehensive. We put on a positive face and caried on with the day successfully.
As the morning carried on we focussed on close ups and mid shots of the boys dancing and the Trumpeter. This meant that we could have our cast in shifts, so they wouldn't get bored of standing around and waiting for too long. They could then be alert and ready for when we need to film them. By the end of the morning we were able to wrap filming on the boys and Miles ahead of the afternoon where we would be using the girl dancers and our main star, Georgie.
After having a short break for lunch, we gathered our girl dancers and got them into costume and make-up, we then spent 10 minutes going over the dance with them and checking they had it down and crisp. We then went onto filming this section, the girls were really good, being performers they knew how to act to the camera and had a lot of personality which showed and made the shots look great.
After wrapping the girls we focussed on shooting the main singer, this would be the focus point of our video and we needed to make sure this looked good. We had previously done a screen test of her and rehearsed her a little bit prior to the shoot. She was such a good performer and acted with such class and sophistication which worked really well for the style of the video.
One particular aspect of the day i focussed on was the camera work. I really enjoyed being able to choose how to frame each shot. Even though we all took turns at each role, working the camera was definitely my favourite part to play.
Overall, the day went very well and we feel we have filmed enough shots to start editing together a rough cut, i really enjoyed the day and was able to use the skills i developed last year to help me with my directing and camera work this year.
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