DW: Shoot Reflection

Where did you go and what did you achieve? 

On Sunday, 3rd November, Harry and myself went to Grosvenor Park in High Brooms to shoot the choruses and some of the filler shots for the choruses - we also filmed the very first shot of the video as well. For each section we used a different bench to change the mise-en-scene; the benches look different, the trees are in alternate places, and the lighting is slightly different - but the framing for both choruses are as identical as possible. The shots we filmed to overlap the main shot of the character sat on the bench where the same ideas for both choruses, whilst seeming repetitive we believe it supports the seeing self idea - in that he sees the same things over and over just in different places. We got all the shots we set out to achieve and we think it will look better than we anticipated when we come to edit it. 

Later on, we went by my house to film one of the filler shots - the landscape one - and then the alleyway shot for the second pre-chorus, which you can see above - please excuse the swear word, it will be masked in the final piece. The lighting for both was apt, especially the alleyway shot where the street lamp came on as we turned up. Considering it's a single shot sequence, we were worried it was going to be quite boring, but the camera shake adds drama to the shot and makes it more visually interesting. 

What problems did you encounter? 

In general, we thought the shoot was very successful; we worked well together and we set up quickly and got the shots we needed. The only problem was the people walking in the background for the chorus shots; normally this wouldn't be an issue but because we are layering shots over each other, any difference in background would ruin the effectiveness of the sequence - therefore we spent a while re-filming certain parts. Whilst travelling to the location it did rain, which we thought would ruin the shoot, but it stopped and the benches were more or less dry anyway, which saved us having to come back another day.

What did we learn in regards to improvements on the next shoot?

We left it fairly late in the half term week to actually do the filming, due to other commitments within the group, but the main thing is we got what we need to begin editing at school. So, generally we need to be more organised in sorting out shoots in advance so that we can dedicate ourselves to the shoot and get what we need done. We will hopefully be filming the rest of the external shots next weekend (9th November) and most of the internal shots on Wednesday (6th November).