Reflection of test shoot

I am now going to review how I think each aspect of the test shoot that we organised went, and what we could do differently when it comes to the real thing. I am doing this so that if I can see what went well (so we can try and do the same for the real shoot), but more importantly what we can improve on. I think the one of the strongest part of the test shoot was the organisation. We were able to contact everyone in the band well before the test shoot to let them know that they were needed, with their costumes, and everyone turned up on time, wearing the right clothing, with everything they had needed learnt already learnt. This is something that we can easily do again using our Whatsapp group chat and our Snapchat group chat to make sure everything is running smoothly on the day in terms of organisation. 

Another part that went well was the amount of shots that we were able to film in a short period of time. We only had 30 minutes of time to do our test shoot and to film all the footage on that day, and we were able to go through the song several times, and do many different shots, which made it very good for editing as we weren't having to scrape the bottom of the barrel for footage, and we had loads to choose from. This may be harder to try and redo on the day, as we have to change sets, and we also have to consider that we have more equipment and other things to take into account, for example costume changes. Having said this, we do have the entire day to film, and so this may balance out, and I think we will be able to gather loads of footage for our music video. 

However, there were certainly things that we could improve upon when shooting the real thing. For example, we were quite hap-hazard in the way that we chose what to film. We did some thinking before on different positions we would like the band to be in that we could film, but it was one of the things that I personally think that we could have been more organised in. However, one of the reasons for this was because we had only really thought about different positions the band could be in with the proper set, and we obviously couldn't do a lot of those positions in the small rehearsal space we used to film the test shoot. Also, we have developed a shot list to help organise what shots we need, and we can use this on the day, tick off the shots that we have done, and see what we have left to shoot. 

Overall, I think the test shoot went well but the most important thing about the test shoot was to see where we could improve so that we could make it better when it comes to the real thing, and so it will only be useful if we learn from it which is what we are going to try and do.