Construction Post 1: Production - video part 1

We had 6 days in total to shoot our footage for the music video. Our priorities for days 1-3 were to shoot the majority of our individual shots as we had organised this with Shayam and our other actors with individual shots were me and Eddie. In addition to this, we wanted to get the artistic shots of the book, paper, headphones etc. as they didn't involve any extra people.

Day 1 - 15th November

Extract from the shoot-board for day 1

Our call time for the first day was 9am with a plan to begin shooting at 11am. We arrived particularly early to enable us to get into costume and make sure that we were completely ready to begin shooting at the desired time. As the group before us weren't using the Green Screen, we also had to start late to allow our technician to put up the Green Screen, a process which took a fair bit of time. With all of this in mind, we all made sure we arrived on time which led to a start time on schedule.

The first day of filming actually went really well as we managed to shoot what we needed ahead of schedule as a lot of the shots were quite simple, for example, shots of the book and headphones. Due to the fact that we managed to finish early, we went off schedule and trialed some shots using myself, Eddie and Shayam just so we had an excess of footage. We also added in a few extra shots of the objects so we had a variety of shots to choose from.

One thing that didn't go as well as we planned was the fact that Shayam was bare foot in these clips, something that we missed which led to a continuity error. This meant that we had to re-shoot all of the clips involving long shots of Shayam in order to fix this. 

The costume error 

Day 2 - 16th November

On the second day, we wanted to shoot the shots from the 'Mars' scene as again, we only needed Shayam for this. The shoot went really well as we shot all of the footage we needed apart from one shot which we forgot. Due to the nature of the shots we were recording, problems were rare and the time on this day was more than enough for what we were shooting.

Having said this, we did encounter an issue for the Flag Pole shot of how to shoot the stick, however, quick thinking meant we resolved this fast and achieved a good quality of footage by using a mop as a guide for where the flag would be. 

Day 3 - 17th November

Re-shoot

Costume error

The 17th was used mainly as a catch-up day to the footage we had already shot as we left the group shots for later in the week. Due to the fact that we only had a short day in the studio, until 5.15, we focused mainly on re-shooting the shots with the costume errors we made and also recorded the shot we forgot to do the day before as seen below.