Account of media shoot day

When shooting the music video due to the circumstances I filmed with another group then I was doing the planning with on the day. I therefore had to adapt to another but similar band but thanks to the well planned storyboarding/timeline there were no problem to catch up on their idea.

(me deciding the angels of the camera)
In the band “Janedoe” that we were using for our video there were seven band members; a singer, two back ground vocals, guitarist, bassist, drummer and keyboard player. Since they were so many it took more time getting all the individual shots but also made it able for us to make the editing more interesting and variable.

We were the second group in our class to shot the band and therefore we learnt some mistake that the first group were doing. We could also plan our shots to a greater extend when we seen the set and also know what to do to save time. We ended up having 30 minutes to film a 59 seconds long music piece and we started doing the wide shots of the whole band and we then did individual shots for all the instruments and band members. In the end of the shooting when we still had a few minutes left, we did some minor things such as extra close-ups and more that wasn’t really necessary but would make the product look better and more professional.

The band was very good in cooperating with us and listened to our ideas, we were four people in our group that changed roles in the shooting of the music video and we all did the different tasks. So in 30 minutes we all took care of the playback, camerawork, director and positioning the band. All of these tasks were very different from each other but it was all about cooperating and understanding each other.

What we could have done better would have been our planning and storyboarding/timeline, especially since we didn’t know exactly how the setup was going to look or exactly how all the band members looked like. We also could have planed in what order we were doing the shots before we actually started to film which could have made us more efficient and therefore more time could have been spent on the editing. The editing of the music video and the thriller was very different in many was because now it was very important to fit the soundtrack and to make the movement match the song and also the lip sync of the singer.

(the set of the video)

Over all this exercise was a good preparation of what is going to happen next year and therefore our finally product could be more thought through and we can also manage to be more time efficient. We also know what we didn’t work and what worked and can now take that experience and learn from it.

          Here is the finished piece of the song all the different parts put together: