Shoot Day Evaluation

 1. What did you do the day before, to get ready for your shoot day?

The day before the shoot I had practiced and made the final versions of the voodoo dolls that we would burn for the end of the music video. Also on that day we confirmed what roles each of us would take the next day I was assigned to do the clapper board and Chris was the main director and Tara helped with the camera work. We had gotten our cult member actors measured for their suits and shoes so that they would be ready on the day of filming. 

2. How did you feel when you woke up on the morning of the shoot day?

On the morning of the shoot day I was quite nervous and slightly panicked as I was overthinking about anything that could go wrong such as running out of time for shooting, lead singer not knowing the lines well enough etc. But that became less and less of a concern as the morning went on and we had everything we needed to begin the shoot.

3. How well prepared were you when you arrived for the shoot, what did you have to do before you could start shooting?

As I arrived at school I had bought in the props that I had been in charge of getting/making e.g. the voodoo dolls and the mask. The first thing that we had done as the group is check we had all our props and made sure that all our band members had their costumes on and knew what they had to do. We then went to find Matt, Fran and Chris in the studio and were told what we needed to do to make sure that the shoot went successfully. Immediately before shooting however we had trouble finding/getting in contact with our drummer this was a slight inconvenience that put us behind schedule but we quickly sorted it out once we began shooting. 

4. Describe what the studio/location looked like when you started to shoot, how well do you feel you managed to create the look of your concept? How did you help set up?

The main location in where we filmed all the band sequences was a shipping container which we were able to empty out and set up the instruments and place all the lighting. When we arrived at the set (shipping container) it was already emptied so all our group had to do was fit in the drum set and the amps in a way that our lead singer would be able to move around without hitting anything such as the light bars we had balancing off the sides of the containers. I mainly helped with the set up of the lights and figuring out which was the best position to have them in.

5. How did you divide the roles on your shoot day, what role(s) did you play? What were the key responsibilities you had?

Throughout the shoot we did not have strict assigned roles we mainly switched roles being between camerawork, clapper board and directing the band/cult members. This allowed for us to share responsibility for each section we took part in I feel I had done some hard shots when I was on camera, trying to get high shots so that all the band members could be seen and very specific angles of the drummer. As for when we started shooting I mainly did the clapper board/timing which I had quickly gotten used to after a couple tries.

6. What do you think that you personally did particularly well?

Personally I think I did some of the camerawork pretty well as I did have to get some very particular and just generally straining shots, such as getting a slight over head shot of all the band members this meant that I had to hold the camera over my head without any support for my arms or the camera. I feel that I had also made the voodoo dolls well with what I was able to use and not a lot of practice in making them.

7. What problems did your group have on the shoot day, how did you solve them?

The biggest problem we ran into on our shoot day was probably the fact that we did not have masks for all the cult members this meant we had to find a way to shoot their scenes in a way where it only showed one of their faces at a time, this was actually very successful and we managed to make the shots look as though they all had their own masks throughout the scenes they were shown in.

8. Which part of the shoot do you think was most successful and why?

I believe that the scenes we had shot in the shipping container were the most successful part of our shoot because we managed to get a wide variety of different shots of the band together and each individual member at some very had angles, we also filmed a section where we needed to fill the shipping container with fog and we managed to film and get everyone out of the container with no accidents or damage to any equipment. 

9. Which part of the shoot do you wish had gone better and why?

I had wished that some of the band sections of the shoot day had gone better in terms of our lead singer knowing some of the lines for the song better and our bassist being more engaged while filming. If our lead singer had know the words better we would not have had to cut and shorten as many shots as we had done during editing.