Day of Filming.

Sunday the 23rd of January was our decided filming date and confirmed by all members of the cast and crew before hand so that everyone was prepared. As previously mentioned this was a rather inconvient date to film due to having exams the next day i believe this could have been avoided by not having an early internal filming deadline. At the production meeting during the week it was decided that i would drive Chelsea and Connor, who came to help film and set up, to the location. We arrived within ten minutes after the arrival time on our production schedules due to diverting to my hosue to pick up equipment that would have aided Chelsea in her photography shoot. On arrival at the hall, the previous group who was filming were the only ones there so we were sat around just waiting for the band to turn up. However their instruments had all been left set up from the previous shoot so little needed changing apart from placement on the stage and a little tidying. All the team were present and ready to start but without all seven members of the band we couldn't begin and i thought i was best appropriate to talk with all of the members of the band together about the shoot instead of individually. After much debating and delays the lead singer, Kay, turned up. Eventually after being there for near two hours the band returned from where ever they had been however we were still left waiting for the two female back up singers. Upon arrival the band began practising a wide range of songs that they knew. I don't think that this was wholly professional of them as in a real world situation this would be one thing a band or artist would not be doing and if they were it would be the song the video is to be made for. This was not beneficial as i was trying to discuss plans for the shoot with the singers and which also increased the difficulty to communicate between each other. I chose the shots to represent the band as equally as i could which was one thing that was requested by the band. The set up of the shots was a little time consuming and again the band felt the need to play between takes but i already knew what i wanted and where i wanted the camera to be placed because of the detailed storyboard and shot list that i had made in preparation for the shoot i just had to shout or move around around to let the cameramen know where to be. Overall i don't think this project has been my best and do believe i could do better. I think i was prepared enough in what i wanted to achieve but the shoot felt very lack lustre and i don't think my heart was in the project 100% as the music, genre and band are something that i am not passionate about and there were also many little details that were missing for me personally to be satisfied with to make the project a glowing success.