Bit More Needed - Second Shoot

After I began to edit footage from the shoot, i noticed a few shots here and there either weren't of a high enough standard, or just didn't work exactly how i envisioned. This required a second shoot...

The second shoot was a much quicker process - the set was still left the same (I made sure just in case I needed re-shoots), I knew exactly what I needed, and all the actors were available.

Overall, the entire shoot only took about 1 hour from start to finish, and I'm pleased with how the shots turned out. Hopefully when I review them on the Macs at school, they'll work better than my initial shots.

Back To The Editing Room

After the shoot, I headed into our editing suite at school to start putting my music video together. On the whole, the footage I shot was very good (which is good news as filming a music video like mine is very time consuming). However there were a few shots I felt needed a re-shoot, and maybe even some extra shots at the beginning and the end before the music actually starts.

So I edited the footage that I already had together, and then began organizing the re-shoot.

First Shoot...

I just came back from the first shoot, which went extremely well. All the actors turned up with positive attitudes and were ready to go. I brought a fellow media student along with me to assist with the shoot: Emily Prescott. I put her in charge of styling, a task of which she was more than willing to help with (I knew how the actors should look, I just needed someone to help me achieve the desired look). Once the actors were good to go, I started the long filming process. Because of my idea, each actor required 4 separate shots that lasted the entire song - which made 16 shots minimum (and that's assuming I get it prefect every time and so do the actors). This took quite a long time to achieve, but in the end I managed to obtain all the shots with minimal reshooting.

Now I have my footage, I have to take it back into school and assess the quality of each shot to see if I can use it or not. If I do not think the footage is up to par, I will have to organize another shoot to get it right.

Let's Do This Thing - Organising The Shoot...

After getting in touch with the actors and agreeing on set days that they could all make, I hired out the equipment for the relevant dates and started to set up the location. Jo Grimshaw and her family kindly let me transform their loft for the shoot by clearing away the furniture and setting up the instruments in the correct positions. I then needed lights to drape from the walls and ceilings, but couldn't think of suitable lights. But I managed to borrow some fairy lights from Jo, and some christmas lights from James Coffey's dad. The set was now complete, and ready for shooting.