Test Shoot and Evaluation

On Friday 1st November all three of us met at 9am in the car park and then drive to Allhallows as our first location to film for the test footage. The day started off well until we reached our destination and realised that we didn't have a tape, this meant we had the camera, tripod, lights and props but no tape to film with, miles from anywhere to buy one we decided to film it on Rosies iphone 5 as the camera quality is really good, the only problem with this is some shots were shaky and it was difficult to judge how long the shots would be. This is where all our problems started, as we were filming we forgot to make sure that we filmed the whole shot through from beginning of the song to end meaning when we came to editing we found it very difficult to lip sync the music, also we didn't judge how long each shot should be so this made the parts of the video out of time to the song as some shots were longer than they should be, then the day only got worse we realised that Rose only had 10% left of battery so we decided to quicken up and get some more shots done in the long grass. If you'd noticed at the end of the video there is Danny lip syncing to a completely different part of the song, this was because our music player had run out of battery so Danny had to guess whereabouts we were in the song. When editing we decided to test out different colour grading so for the first few seconds of the video the colour grading changes, this is on purpose. Then later in the long grass shots we placed a multiply effect.

Even though a lot went wrong we'd said we rather had the problems now rather than on the real shoot, we have learnt from our mistakes and will ensure we have fully charged technologies and ensure we have all equipment. we will organise the shots better and ensure all the timings are correct and it is filmed the proper way.

Feedback from the shoot saw that people loved the opening shot of the sea and the actor.

Here is our rough cut, test shoot, you will see examples of colour grading and effects.

Rosie, Danny and Layla all took it in turns to use the camera and direct the shots.