Our 1st & 2nd Shoots

There were both postives and negatives from our first and second shoot days (Thursday and Friday of half term). 

 

 What worked:

The weather was perfect both too days (if a little cold on the second), not too sunny, but bright and dry. The settings were beautiful, and very vibrant and colourful just as we had hoped.  The costumes were effective (we ended up dressing her in a white vest top with a red rolling stones sign and a leather jacket; a floral dress and sunglasses with military boots; a navy dress with gold rope designs; and a black bandeux leotard with navy harem pants). The shots of our actress walking, especially once reversed at the editing suite, were really effective. The well planned shots for example the apple flying out of the basket, and the lipstick shots worked really well.

 

 What didn't work so well:

 

 Detailed planning of our shots was something we all decided we needed to work on more for the second shoot. We had placed too much hope on being able to just turn up at the shoot and improvise on the areas we hadn't planned in as much depth, and although we did want that element of "spontenaity" in our video, this was still something we would have to acheive through careful planning. We also let ourselves down with the directing of our actress as we didn't really set up the role for her before the shoot so she found it hard to get into, especially the lip syncing. Our actress was cold on the shoot in skimpy clothes! Also, costume changes were awkward when we were out and about. We didn't get permission to film in Trafalgar Square.