Shoot day reflection.

 Before the shoot day, I met with my group in the studio, where we met with the set designer who told us what we have to do and set up before the shoot day. Due to having a simplistic set my group and I just had to put a black cloth on the wooden panels, so that on the shoot day we would be able to create a tunnel by using these panels. 

Overall my group and I covered about six wooden panels with a black cloth. We have also set up all of the instruments and set for the performance part of the music video, as that was filmed first. On the morning of the shoot day, I surprisingly was not stressed or worried about anything that is about to happen. It was mainly because I knew that our concept is not that complicated as other groups had and I was also sure in my production group that everything will go as smoothly as possible.  Before starting the actual shoot we had to be sure that all of the cast members were already in the costumes, we had to set up all the electronic things, such as cameras, an iPad that would make the playback play, monitor which displayed what was in the frame.

After doing that we had to figure out what lighting we want for what part of the song, while we were filming the performance part of the song.  I believe that we have managed to create the concept that we were talking about, that we were imagining.  I believe that even though we have not managed to do one of our sets on the shoot day and that we had to shoot it on the week following our shoot day we still managed to create a good teamwork atmosphere, and hopefully a good music promo. 

 Talking about different roles on set differed slightly from what we planned and divided before the shoot day. Initially, everyone was meant to be doing one specific role. But it turned out that we were pretty much doing little bits of different roles on set. The only thing that did stay as planned is the fact that throughout all the shoot days we had the same person who was a camera operator. I was and an art director and at times camera director and also in a way runner, who was doing a bit of that and a bit of that. I was one of a few people on set who were almost all the time busy either helping cast or helping to build/deconstruct something.  I was also constantly taking pictures, for both, my blog posts and also for behind scenes videos. 

I believe that personally, I have done well with trying to help everyone who was involved in the creation of our music video and also staying as energetic and positive as I could throughout the filming, even in the stressful moments of the shoot. One of the biggest examples of the stressful moment was when we could not start the filming until 10:30 am due to some issues related to lighting. Because we wanted di8fferent types of lighting on different phases of song and it was constantly having wrong timings of when the right light should come. This problem occurred due to the fact that we were programming these lights, and the programming did not end up successful enough, so we end up doing everything manually. So, in the end, Fred from my group was doing lighting for the rest of the shoot day. 

I believe that the most successful part of the shoot was when we all went to Guilford. All the cast members and the crew were very professional, and even though it was already pretty late in the evening and everyone was tired all the cast did what we wanted them to do and all of the crew members were also as energetic, as they were on the set at school. 

I believe that when we were filming the corridor part of the music video, we could have created a smoother corridor, and also maybe less wide, as it was on the shoot day. Due to the fact that the tunnel was not as narrow, as we wanted we could have an actual film that scenes without the building up the set, so it means that we could have spent more time on other things, such as filming the 'basement' part, which we had to film on Monday.

Talking about actors, I believe that they did an amazing job of staying as positive as they could, being as 'professional' as they could, meaning that there was not any part of the shoot where they would give up or something like that. I also liked the fact that they listened to and respected all of the members of the crew, not just one/two exact people but all of us. Some of the cast members were even, at some points helping me. 

The part of the shoot that I have enjoyed the most on the shoot day is setting up the set and equipment and also setting up the lights and how they will look at different parts of the song and 'beat'.

Talking about what I would like to see edited the most, it is probably the footage that we shot in Guilford. It will be interesting to see it due to many reasons, but mainly due to the fact that we took a lot of pictures rather than filmed footage, so it will be interesting to see how it will sink with the video and whether our idea will look how I imagined or no.

As a group, I believe we worked quite well, although at some parts I wish that we could work a little bit more as a group, rather than just as we are working on our own the whole time. In the future shoots, I would definitely like to bring any drinks in bottles so that I would be able to have drinks when I am needed to rather than only when I have the opportunity to do so; I would also improve the way I was incorporating with the cast because I believe I could have done it better than I did.