In the meantime, our cast was having hair and make up done and the group and I were waiting till the lights go back on so that we can set up in the studio. We couldn't enter without the power being back on because it was pitch black and was too much of a safety hazard. When the lights were back on we were able to set up the DJ decks onto the platform and cut out and stick the matte paper to stick in front of it. The blinders were set up from the previous day, we found we made the right decision of trying to set up as much as we could the night before the shoot. We were a bit worried that with the DJ set it could get a bit boring, but our video in general relies a lot on lighting, so when we had the set with all of the different lights like strobe, pixel line under the DJ booth and other.. it created exactly the look that we were going for.
A couple of days before the shoot day we divided our roles, my first role was keeping track of the shots that we took and making sure that our cast was happy and not dehydrated. Throughout the shoot day I was also the Art Director, making sure that what we had on camera was exactly what we wanted. During the afternoon I swapped roles with Haydon and was in charge of playback. Eloise was the Director throughout the whole day, as we thought that she would be best at making sure that we were on track and got the footage that we needed. Ben was the camera man and everyone helped get the right mood for the actors to feel more comfortable on set, we all did this by dancing with them and shouting over the music for them to hear what we actually wanted from them. For example, when we shot Genny we were telling her throughout the song whether she should move back or forward.Throughout the day I thought that I was best at making sure that the cast was ready and in place when we needed them, I also always helped when we had small jobs like sweeping the floor or making sure that the Perspex was clean. I kept a list of the types of shots that we did and how many shots that we took in each set.
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Unfortunately, at 15.30 pm the power kept shutting down on and off around ten times in the space of thirty minutes. This was very frustrating because we had just set up our set for the dancers scene, and George our light director kept on starting to program the lights into the system but it all shut down and this meant that we weren't able to start as the lights were vital for our music video and obviously we needed the power for playback, sound and cameras. We had to make a collective decision on what we would do about this and we concluded with the idea that we are going to have to reschedule the second part of our shoot. However, this wasn't as simple as it sounds because we had to have it on a day that no other group is shooting in the studio. We agreed on a date and gave sincere apologies to the dancers as they were with us the whole day and we didn't get to do their scene, but they understood our situation as it was completely out of our control.
The most successful part of the shoot day was probably when we shot Genny in the light corridor, because when all of the lights were turned off it created an infinity effect with the pixel line lights installed into the three sided corridor. The shots that we got of Genny varied from close ups, wide shots, medium close ups and close up body part shots.
I feel as if my production group and I worked really well together on the day, it seemed like everyone knew what they were in charge of and nobody got into fights with anyone. We also were of great support to each other and also made sure that our cast were well taken care of. One thing that I feel that we could improve on is the turnover time between takes because I think that we lost a bit of time by talking over the footage, whereas, if we took less time between each take, we could have finished a bit earlier and possibly could have started the dancers bit before the power cut.
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