SHOOT DAY!

Our Music Video shoot was on thursday the 5th of November, and overall was a great experience. 

Our day started with us getting into school with our equipment , and getting all set up for out first set, which was the underground DJ set. We were meant to start filming at 9 however the girls didnt arrive in till later as they had to pick up Kemi who was our main actor fromt he train station. So me and Ollie got everyone organized and contacted Grace and asked what the girls needed done for their make up. Then me and Ollie went an put the final touches onto our DJ set which involved sticking up our posters to help create our 90's theme and choosing the lighting to support this as well. Finally we set up the Dj decks on a table and covered it so it looked more authentic. Then the girls arrived and put the finishing touches on the girls make up and costumes whilst me and Ollie organised the Dj's into their clothing and the set. Then we played the track for them so they could get an idea of it and what they wanted to do. Finally we got started, i was on playback and the others had split camera, directing and producing between them. We got some close ups, some wide shots and some canted angles and even a hand held shot. We did as much as we could so that we had a lot of footage to use when it came to post production. Everyone started on the decks but then we needed to incorporate the boombox as it was the centre of our video, so we moved Rob onto holding the boombox and busting some moves with it which seemed to work well. Then for a few shots we moved the girls in to dance around the boys, which worked well as it created a sort of club scene

Heres a few snaps taken by ollie of this set:

Makeup

Helen doing Kemi's makeup

Make-up

Jacky

Because it took us so long to set this set up and actually get recording by the time we had finished it was nearly time for lunch, but we decided to use the three extra girls we had and start them on their dancing. We put them infront of a coloured screen to get the nineties look and varied the lighting and angles that were used to record the footage. They danced as a group, and then on their own and then on their own with a boombox. They were all dressed in 90's themed clothing which helped go with the theme again

Our final set was our rooftop scene with all of our characters being on a sofa on a green screen and on the green screen we will put our roof top/ skyline idea. Everyone was put on the sofas and told to just dance really and the three main girls were singing the lyrics. We found it hard where to position everyone but by the end we were able to find positions were everyone was visible on camera and where they looked good. We did many shots of this scene as we kept trying to fins somewhere t put the boom box and in the end we decided on putting it on kemis lap who was in the middle of the sofa thus it would be the centre of attention.

I feel that the overall experience of the shoot day was really enjoyable, as i was able to have a go doing everything such as playback and using the camera. I feel our shoot went well after the little issue in the morning and that we were able to work well as a unit and got what we actually wanted out of the experience. After looking at some of the footage in post production i think were all happy with what weve filmed and think it has the basis to be a good music video. Now all weve got to do it put it all together