Music Video Evaluation.

The day before our shoot we went into the studio at 3pm, just after the group before us had finished shooting there set. We set up the dingy meth lab scene first as it was the hardest set to make out of all three of our sets.  We pulled together three tables and put while cloth over them. For the back drop we used a brick wall set and metal grating. We covered the table cloth in food dye, mud and coffee to make it look like an exploding meth lab. We got all the flasks, test tubes, beakers and equipment from the chemistry department. We found an old fridge outside and brought it in because we thought that it would  fit the set perfectly. We got some bar carbonated soda from the chemistry lab and vinegar to make the eruptions in our set. We filled up the test tubes and equipment’s with food colouring and different coloured liquids and placed them around the set.

I was very excited when I woke up on the shoot day and was very confident after the great turn out of the meth lab. I was quite worried about any delay and if we were going fit everything in in the hours we had. I wasn’t worried about the sets because I knew that the meth lab was the hardest to make and we make it look like a genuine exploding meth lab.

For the first set we had prepared the night before so we were well prepared for the performance. We just placed the lights around the set and set up the tripod and we were ready to start shooting. For the next set we had everything sorted and organised. It was the school classroom so we got an easel from the art department. Pained a board black, so it looked like a black board. And got a desk from media department. For the back drop we got a white brick walls and carpet for the floor.

We spread the roles out very evenly between our group. For the first set we all took part in creating the realism and getting all the test tubes and flasks and covering the tables in coffee, mud and food dye. We each took turns filming. One person would films ad the other would be on the focus lens while the third member would be shouting orders at the actors on stage. I took control of the smoke machine and made sure that before each shot of the meth lab all the flasks, the cauldron and the fridge was filed up with smoke for the continuity. I took control of the camera for a bit and when round, free hand to try and get some interesting close up shots of the decks and experiments. I achieved some great focus shots by doing this of the vinyl decks which would be great for the intro of the music video.

I though that all three sets were very successful in the end. I was really pleasure with the meth lab. I though that the school classroom was a great turn out. I was most surprised with the space scene because that was our last set and we weren’t quite sure what we were doing for the scene, so we set up and star cloth back drop and a plastic rock floor, placed some in the background and a section I the foreground to create depth. We got a teacher called Steven to play the violin for us along to the music. And got some masks from the theatre department and some extras to wear them and go behind the sets. I think it worked out surprisingly well and so I was very surprised with that scene.

For the meth lab scene the actors worked really well, especially the Dj, gil. Luke, the partner was a bit shaky at the start but he got the hang of it. For the old school room set, oli played the part really well as we wanted someone to go crazy in front of the camera and thats what he did. For the space scene it looked very sinister having Steven playing the violin in space and that is what we wanted, so I think the overall acting was good quality.

I enjoyed filming the meth lab the most as I was so proud of the set we had managed to produce. I am looking forward to editing that scene the most in the post production as we managed to get some many interesting shots, including the close ups.

I learnt many thing on the shoot day. All sorts of different camera techniques and the result of them. For example I really enjoy using focus pulled shot, I though they were really effective. I learnt a lot about lighing that day and how to show significants to an object or someone by using some old lighting techniques..

I think that our overall band image is quite quirky and strange, I thought that the result of the shoot really fitted into the website we are currently constructing. We want the album art work to be very off topic to add to the quirkyness of the overall band image.