Construction Post 2: Production - video part 2

For Days 4-6, our priorities changed a little as we focused mainly on shooting our group shots and performance shots. We had planned ahead with our actors for our shoot to be at the end of the week so the 19th November proved to be a very big day for us.

Day 4 - 18th November

We had planned to shoot all of the performance footage of myself on this day as Shayam had other commitments for most of the day meaning we couldn't really use her. The day was quite successful as all we had to do was record me singing pretty much. Due to the fact that we were using both the school's 5D and Eddie's 600D Cameras, this meant that we recorded both angles of the singing at the same time which was far more efficient than if we had to record from one angle and then re-record from a different angle.

Eddie's Camera

School's Camera

Overall, our footage on the day was pretty good and was very useful for the edit as we could slide it in wherever we had a gap. We finished the shoot on time and had more time to prepare for the big shoot the following day.

Day 5 - 19th November

The 19th November was the biggest shoot for our group. 2 whole scenes relied on this shoot so it was vital that everything went smoothly. We started with the glow in the dark scene and shot this through lunch. Although lots of preparation had gone into this to make sure the glowsticks showed on camera, we made quite a large error as we thought our new UV paint was working on camera when we tested it but it was in fact only showing up from a very close distance which meant it was unusable. However, we still had the glowsticks which meant we could still create a variety of usable footage. Below is an example of some of the footage.

During our media lesson, we shot the footage from the new year's scene using people from our class and one of my friends who had a free lesson as we needed less people here. This was quite straightforward but we slightly overran here as we didn't allow enough time for multiple takes of each shot and we also wanted to add in some shots that we thought up on the spot as scene by the shots below. 

Finally, after school, we focused on shooting the Orange scene (daylight party). This part of the shoot went mainly to plan as we still managed to shoot all of the footage ahead of the time we had to leave. We did get what we needed but looking back at the footage now, I feel we could have done with possibly getting one more take of footage to use to vary the shots a bit. In addition to this, I feel a few more people on set would have looked better as the shots looked a bit empty in the wider angles.

A long shot of the Orange Scene

Day 6 - 20th November

The 20th November wasn't a shoot intensive day as we simply used it to re-shoot any missing or badly shot footage. We reviewed the footage in the morning and used lunch to re-shoot a few shots which we had made costume errors in. This only took about 20 minutes as there were no issues whilst shooting the footage. 

The footage after we corrected the costume error