Where did you film and what were your aims?
We travelled to Brighton on September 19th in order to have some practise and a range of shots that are likely to be used in most types of video. This trip gave us the chance to also practise the sorts of shots that we would like to try and use in our video for example we were able to try shots at different speeds because we want to experiment with this in our final piece. We tried some shots which we slowed down in to a slow motion shot when editing and we also tried some shots which we sped up to give the effect of time compression.
What did you achieve?
Sam: We were able to take some nice shots that have altered our opinion of what sort of shots we may look to use in our final video. Originally we planned to use lots of meat shots and close ups of the artist but we have now decided we are likely to try some more experimental shots that will give our video a different feel. Also the practising of changing the speed of our shots has helped our planning for our final video which will include both time compression and expansion due to slow motion and sped up shots.
Adam: In terms of my achievements, I personally believe that we took into account the surroundings and location we were given and as a result used it well in order to create some very effective and innovative shots. We used a range of camera techniques whilst in Brighton and I believe the use of establishing shots were very effective in this location, especially when shot from the pier, due to the fact that there's lots of opportunities to experiment with them in terms of post production. In terms of our actual music video this filming reccie was useful as it gave us insight into lots of types of locations we could use from coastal, to streets, towns and lanes etc... Also it gave us more knowledge of different shots we could experiment with, as well as the aspects of post production we could use.
Alex: I felt like we had a good time filming in brighton, we could however have filmed more of actual people as we thought we had enough, but in comparison to the number of filler shots we got, we didnt get very many acceptable meat shots of ourselves. We thought about editing a lot more when filming this time, and thought about shots which we could edit and would look good when edited especially time compression and reverse speed effects.
What problems did you find?
One of the main problems we faced was that for any of the shots we wanted to try the mise-en-scene had to be carefully planned right down to the smallest detail. Many of our shots we wanted to portray a 'feel good' feeling with fast paced editing, however we realised when we came to our editing that even things like the weather can damage the feel of the footage. In this case the overcast weather was incoherent with the feel good nature we wanted from our footage so it looked far less effective than we had hoped. Also we found that we had not really planned our shots well enough before we went to the location to shoot them, however this was not a major problem as it was only a practice shoot.
What have you learnt from this?
We learnt on this trip a lot more about the speed of the shots that can look good in a music video. For example we took a shot of clouds in the sky and people walking past the camera for a few minutes which we then planned to speed up during the editing process. However we learnt that for this type of shot we actually need to film a lot more than we realised as when the shot was compressed it ended up being a lot shorter in duration. The reverse was also true in that we actually learnt that we only need to shoot a small amount when shooting for a slow motion video.
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