Our shoot was to start at 9am on thursday, november 4th. However at 9 o'clock we noticed that two of our band members had not shown up which did not work to our advantage. We found out that one of them had pulled out last minute and the other had not bothered to turn up. We managed to find one of them, which was the guitarist and the other was unavailable.
Therefore we had to make do with what we had. We were missing our DJ, therefore we took another band member, which was supposedly meant to be playing another guitar and he became our new DJ.
Although me was a guitarist and had no clue he was going to DJ he did a very good job and was much better than most of us expected.
Our set had two tyres on the floor with a red and blue light coming through the middle, and other lights placed around, which added a really nice effect. We also had chains on the floor, a rope hanging from the ceiling and a deck, set up for the DJ. We had to get Holly, our lead singer, onto the rope, which she swings off. I know that this was very uncomfortable for he, however she was very patient and listened to commands very well.
After shooting our first section, which was the performance element of our media video we were meant to shoot in the woods, for our narrative section. However the weather was not how we wanted, therefore we had to shoot our performance element in the studio. So after a quick set change we were ready, however once again, more of our cast had pulled out last minute. We managed to have a few that we originally wanted, but had to collect a few others which were not originally supposed to be in it. Although a few of them did not know what they were supposed to be doing they were very helpful and did what we asked which made it so much easier for us. We got everybody into costumes, these our a few of our cast in costumes:
We got everybody into costumes and got them into a classroom, where we told them to get into creepy, animal characters. Although it started slow as people were unsure of what to do, they picked it up and really got into it which saved us a lot of time. These are our freaks rehearsing in the classroom:
After we had a few rehearsals and our new set was built we were able to take our cast into the studio to carry on with filming. Holly was also in some aspects of the narrative scenes, which meant the audience would relate her into both aspects and the two scenes would merge together in our final cut.
There were a few shots when our main narrative cast, Abby, was being attacked by the freaks/animals to add tension and an aspect of violence in a descrete way, so our target audience felt they could connect with our music video. One of the shots we did for this was birds eye view which had a different effect, which worked really well.
Although I was slightly worried with what might or might not happen on our shoot day, due to lack of organisation, I think we managed to pull it all together just before shooting which I thought was a success and althought there was stress at times, I think everybody enjoyed themselves.
