Test Shoot

Yesterday we filmed our test shoot to get an idea of how our video may look if we were to shoot it with our current ideas. The shoot went well as a whole as we had a pretty good idea of what we wanted the performance to look like. We arranged with Mark, who runs the schedule of the studio, a sensible and appropriate time that we were able to film in there. The reason we shot a test shoot is so that if anything didn't look interesting or if something got boring then we will be able to fix it for the real shoot. We arranged with Romany for a perfect time that both us, her and the studio was free and we got to work. 

I think that the lighting and simplicity of the performance went well as it matched the song perfectly. The single light also added a great effect however we are likely to change this to hanging light bulbs around the singer because we feel this will create more of an atmosphere and emphasis the simplicity of it. 

We started the shoot by using an iPhone as thats all we could get our hands on. We had booked the studio to use as a space and got our lead singer, Romany, to try singing for us. She looked great on camera and the simple lighting effect really worked well. We were unable to get Josh and Gracie in unfortunately as it wasn't a convenient time for them and was too far for them to travel, therefore myself and Ksenia stepped in. In addition, our drummer was unable to turn up as he had to cancel at the last minute so Ben stepped in to play as he plays the drums. Unfortunately there wasn't a drum kit in the studio, which was poor planning by us, as we presumed there would be so we improvised with a table hoping that would work. However, in the real video we will make sure that we have a drum kit and our drummer is able to make the shoot. 

I sent an email to Romany thanking her for all her hard work, however she did not know the words well on the day as we didn't send her the words so I have attached them in this email so she can know them for the real shoot.