On the 14th of November we had
our music video shoot for our Media Studies coursework. We had filmed the
entire day starting from 9:00 to 6:00.
The
day before the shoot we had to set up in the studio for our first scene in
order to save time in the actual shoot day. To set up, we needed chairs,
tables, a television, refrigerator, phone, and etc… to create a living room of
a house. To make it more realistic we had gathered up a lot of different
posters to sell the idea of it being a standard day to day living room rather
than just a set. I had stayed after school to help set up because we had not
enough time for us to finish during school time, so I stayed until almost
everything was set for the morning.
When
the morning arrived I had been very keen for that day that I had been the first
one to be in the studio to make the final changes to set. We had still needed
to set up the drum set and put the final props in the studio including the VHS
kassets and the beer bottles. One problem that we faced was that we did not have
a normal pizza menu which was vital to our shoot, we before thought of using a
real pizza menu from a pizza company but it might not work that well. So for
the next half an hour I had created our own crystal moon pizza menu that work
really well in our shoot that had been my first job during the day.
As
the day progressed I started to appreciate more and more our set that we had created,
the simplicity to room made it more believable to be a regular living room of a
house. We had everything that is needed for a living room, the sofa, TV,
fridge, posters, phone, beer, tables and etc… It feels like our vision of our
concept in the development stages of the music video had held up and it is what
we had expected to be. Here on the bottom I had created a little diagram of how
our set looked like:
In
the beginning of the day I had been setting up for the music video by doing
some heavy lifting. In order to finish our set all we needed was a pizza menu
of a delivery service which I had made. Finally when we started out filming I
had mostly focused on taking pictures of the music video and to keep track of
the continuity. I then afterwards moved on to camera work and to figure out
what kind of shots we had needed. I had mostly been hands on with the camera, I
had also done focus pulling on the camera as well as operating the dolly track
for the shoot.
I think the overall music video went well, the
rest of my group contributed to their specific jobs while I contributed to
mine. The only thing that I wish could go better was the actual sweeded scenes,
it had felt like we had spent all of our time doing the story and the
performance of the band but we had not enough time to film the actual 4 sweeded
scenes.
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