Shoot day and setting up

SETTING UP

Our shoot day was on Monday, but first of all we needed to set up for our set on Friday. We started up by putting up the boards of the sides of the room, which has a door each side so our actor can exit for each of the shots. We then filled the room with the props including the table which he drinks the water from, the sofa, the dressing table, the TV and the side table. After this, we then started our graffiti for the back wall, which we asked an art student and Milan to create graffiti on our which we have running through our whole digipack, website and social media page. We let this dry, and after added our posters onto the wall which represent the appreciation our artist has for the different genres. 

SHOOT DAY

As we had already prepared our set on Friday for the shoot, we called in our artist who was already dressed in his suit. We decided using the champagne bottles and flutes didn't work with the video, so we chose the alternate choice of water jugs and plastic cups instead. After setting up our cameras in the right place, ensuring we had a new battery for the camera and gathering props for the video we were almost set to go. Our artist had already been practicing the choreography we gave him, however we ran through this to ensure the best performance. We then started the test shoots, or practice run throughs, to ensure accuracy to make sure our video went as smoothly as possible. Roxy's job was to advise our artist any improvement during these practice run throughs, but also to turn on the plug which turned on and off the television. Milans job was to film and make sure our camera stayed as stable at all times, this was very important as we had to film the reverse and non reverse clip which we would after blend together with a split screen. My job was to use the clapper board to ensure when editing our video we had the same timing, to play the music for our artist and to call out instructions of our Artists movement ensuring he knew what to do when (as our whole video was taken in one shot, it would have been hard for our artist to remember every single action. I felt this prevented mistakes very effectively). After doing many test shoots, we filmed 5 real shoots so we had a choice and to chose the best one for our video. Then this we prepared our set for the reverse video, and again went through tests shots but more this time as this was a lot more complicated than our in-time shot. After taking 4 more videos and confident we had the perfect shot for each half, we did some other close up shots of the artist in case there was a mistake in the videos. We had finished our shoot after this which as a group we all agreed went incredibly smoothly.