Evaluation of preliminary music video

As some of the group members had a free last period on the day of filming, we met at the media room and then we started to move the the drum kit and the other equipment from the music room to the drama room. We chose the drama room as it could be transformed into a stage and it had all the elements that we needed like stage lights, and we could easily block out the doors and other light with the black curtains. Then at the end of fifth period we all started to piece together the drum kit and the mini stage which the drums would sit on and adjusting the mise en scene. We did this by setting up the main camera in the middle as it will be recording the whole video non-stop. so we could frame it and make sure that everything was right, with the black curtain background and there was no random objects in shot. After this we got the tricky shots out of the way first, these were where we had to record behind the drummer and also a close up directly down onto the drums. The main director was Milo as he is the best with cameras, but well all had inputs as he was open to ideas and also me and Jordan help with directing and positioning as we were assisting directors. After the first couple of shots that we recorded we replayed them to the whole group just to get a feel of what it would look like. we photocopied the storyboard so that each of the camera men including me knew which shots we need to record. So we knew which shots we had to record, Milo the director spilt the storyboard into third so that each of us has scenes to focus on.  After we did all of this the real recording began and we kept going through the whole song with the music in the background so we could keep recording the shots if we missed them. This was very effective as the ‘band members’ kept playing through the song and the three camera men recorded the shots they had been dedicating, and if we missed it then we would just go through it again, and again. It was an effective method as we got all the shots in one recording which took 1h 30 minutes.