Evaluation of shoot day

In order to prepare for our shoot day we had to be fully organised, therefore the day before we had to do a number of things: Prepare our set (Painting fake walls), collecting leaves, making sure our cast were fully prepared and with all the props we needed. This meant when we arrived on the shoot, we had pretty much everything set up and ready to go. All we had to do was to put all the props in place, eg. The DJ set. However the set still looked a bit bland and boring, it didn't look like a rave. So to change this we added in some colourful lighting and some leaves on the floor to give it a more lively/ forest feel. One thing we did well was dividing the roles on the day, I was in charge of directing the actors and what they should be doing, whilst Elizabeth focused on getting the right shots and Bea made sure the set was looking good and gave some helpful suggestions. Personally I thought I did very well at directing all the actors so that we could get the exact shots we wanted, and making sure everyone did the best they could. One problem we had on the shoot day was the lack of people in crowd, to resolve this we made the shots very close to the DJ's to give off the effect of it being more packed. Also we ran out of time very quickly, therefore we had to arrange another date to finish the footage we needed. I think the most successful part of the shoot was at the end where we worked very well together and kept on trying to get a shot which in the end turned out to be a very amazing shot! I wish that the house scene would look more realistic with other props such as a TV, even though it still looked very effective. Overall I think that we worked very well as a team as we all knew what we wanted, therefore it was easy to work together. I don't think we will need to make huge changes to our Artwork/EP design as we wanted these designs to be very simple and artistic, rather than from photographs. However we did take a few pictures of the fox DJ's as a potential use of a CD cover.