Friday, 15 November 2013

Evaluation of the shoot (1)




  • What worked:

- I stuck to my timing frames. So, i had an idea as to when i was supposed to do certain things which helped. I was able to start filming the band at the time i planned and we finished as planned too.

- Briefing the band was also effective as everyone was professional at the time of filming and they knew that whilst i was setting up the camera, lights and sound, they were going through the song and practiced.

- Because i kept to my 'other considerations' and talked to Charlie the day before about how to use the theater lighting i was quick to find a solution for when a problem came up *(mentioned in "What didn't work:".

- Making sure that the theater would be ready for that day and time along with making sure that we could borrow the music instruments beforehand made sure that i was actually able to film on that day and therefore not having to delay the shoot a few days back.




  • What didn't work:

- There was a problem with the already programmed lighting that i did with Charlie the day before. I was only supposed to slide the button up in order for the middle lights to come up and then press the button underneath it, which would have gradually turned on the selected lighting. However when pressing the button as well as doing that, it turned on coloured light behind the band and i wasn't able to fix that within 10 minutes, therefore i opted to fade in the lights manually sliding up each individual button that corresponded to certain lights.

- Although i stuck to my timing frames i didn't take into account that to shoot the whole song one time through would take me around 7 to 10 minutes. Because i'd check that the camera was filming, then go and turn the lights down again, make them play the song through, go and check the camera had filmed it, set it up in a different angle, check everything and redo this over and over again. This caused me to not get as many individual shots of the band members as i planned to.



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