On our third day of shooting, we aimed to shoot the entire performance for our music video. Before i could reach the venue, i had to buy some things that we needed during the shoot; snacks, foil paper, drinks, disposable plates and cups etc. We had to work with people whom we didn't know. We had arranged the actors through some friends and so we spent some time introducing ourselves to the actors and getting comfortable. We had assigned them their roles and the costumes they had to wear before the shoot day. However, this didn't go as planned as some of the actors being slightly amateur backed out at the eleventh hour forcing us to look for newer ones. This delayed our shoot for some hours. After we had made some calls to arrange for the new cast, we had some time until they arrived. We used that time to arrange all the props and design the set. While we did that, we handed the vocalists the lyrics of the song that we had printed already so that they could learn them. All this was extremely exhausting and hardly gave us any time to rest. We were hardly able to get any decent shots and the actual shooting was postponed to the next day. On the whole it was an enlightening experience and it helped us learn how to be patient and deal with last minute mishaps.
Strengths
Strengths
- The vocalists were very cooperative and easy to work with.
- The location was of one of the team member's therefore there were no permission issues.
- We had arranged the instruments and the props before hand.
- There was a lot of understanding between the team members therefore no hassle.
- All the actors were willing to help with the arrangements.
- There were no lights on the roof so lighting was a problem.
- There were time constraints for some of the actors.
- A lot of time was wasted because of the actors who backed out.
- The actors weren't fully familiar with the song therefore there were some problems with the lip syncing.
- One of the guitarists didn't know how to play the guitar and had to fake it.
- We had to work a lot on the expressions of the vocalists as they weren't exactly what we wanted.