Group Work and Time Management // How we achieved the shots we wanted
My decision to work in a group of three including myself, Izzie and Amy for this project has been a very good decision and has resulted in a final piece that we all love and enjoy watching ourselves. To work fast and effectively get tired to split the workload equally between us, but certain tasks like in the panning stage we all did such as the storyboard and we were reflecting feedback to each other during the production stage of the Music Video. This allowed us to carefully consider each shot and what exactly was in frame and allowing us all to have an input, bouncing off each other if a shot hadn’t turned out the way we wanted it to or someone disliked it we would make sure to change. For example, we had put in show more clips in the police car but as i thought they were too shaky we decided as a team to take them out.
In post production we all work together well when it came down to editing.we work well as we all had similar ideas and wanted the same themes and genetic conventions to be added which meant choosing the shots to put in was fairly easy, this was also the case with choosing location and themes, which really helped us to save time in the planning and post-production stage.
As we were well organised during the pre-production stage, we were able to maximize the time we had to film but as we wanted a large range of shots time did seem to go very fast on the filming days. Our time management was good due to the fact that Izzie was our main actor and also in our group meaning she was just as edger to get it filmed, our actor Gemma who wasn't in our group also was available too.
As Izzie was in nearly all shots shes couldn't film as much as me and Amy meaning that was wanted to be more involved with the editing which was handy as she could edit as me and Amy would do other tasks for the blog and uploaded more of our footage to the computer that we liked from previous filming days but also as i had a clear idea in my head of how i wanted the music video to be like i would as well as Amy have an input and help with the editing. I think that as I had such a clear idea of how i wanted the music video to be i had to compromise some of my ideas and let the others have there inputs as it was a team project, but as i am very happy with our video having the others input there ideas was a good thing and we all really like and could develop each others thoughts.
How we achieved the shots we wanted
As we had planned to use a wide range of shots from the beginning of the project and wanted bring our ideas to life we made sure we left enough time to fit all the filming we needed to do in and also to help maintain a high standard we use of high-tech equipment such as a tripod, slider and camera shoulder support to made all the shots all more professional. This has meant we have gathered plenty of shots that reveal all emotions of our characters and meant that we can have high speed editing such as fast cuts between each frame. We have managed to use our equipment well, with it really benefiting our results when it comes to producing professional work.
Originally we wanted to film in the ‘Doh Ho Exhibit’ and The pink staircase at ‘Frank’s Café’ in London, but unfortunately we couldn’t film due to the prices etc, but we came up with equally as aesthetically pleasing places that we knew were available.
We used an urban location with plenty of movement in the background to create a lot of excitement and to intrigue the audience, however we had also chose an area within our urban locations London called Notting Hill this was good as it had a lot of space to adjust and move the equipment whilst filming each frame. For the use of 180 degree shots we used the path way which was wide enough to be able to move from right to left to right with the camera with an additional pan effect. This would not have been achieved if we had used a smaller space as the crew and actors would need to move around as well as the equipment.
When creating the tracking shots (as she is running down the stairs) we have been able to use the shoulder support to create a great rough effect. We wanted the audience to see that there was an intention for the shot to be more casual and bumpy, but we still wanted to maintain a professional feel, for example we wanted the shot to be clear and not make the audience feel confused. We tried this technique many times before being able to master it and this meant that we were able to then get the perfect shot to use within our media video.
