Evaluation of shoot date

            Today we have done our Music video shoot of the song “Down the Road” By C2C the shoot was successful with the outcome that we wanted. Initially, The afternoon before the shooting day we were suppose to prepare and set up our set in the studio but due to the previous group who overlapped their time slot resulting in my group, struggling and found it impossible to set up the set that afternoon and have to set the set up the following morning, which is the shoot date morning. Fortunately, we mainly shoot against the green screen, which means we don’t have to spend a lot of time on setting up the set, just only the lighting and camera. During the shoot we rotate our roles, at first I started off as continuator then change to cameraman and director. I found myself enjoy being director and continuator as these roles allow me to express my ideas of what I want the shots to be or look like, not that when I’m the continuator other people don’t listen but when I was director and cameraman people tend to listen and to my ideas and take to their consideration more. Luckily we did not face any problem during the shoot, we managed to work as a team really well every member of our team turned up on time with props that they required to bring. Our music video is mainly focus on performance and silhouette, which means to make this music video a success we need to find actors with other talents than acting, fortunately, we found 3 gifted dancers, two of them are in As year and another is in A2. Personally, I found filming these people dancing is the most successful and enjoyable bit because we can see how hard they try and they always surprise us with their cool dance moves. However, there is also one particular scene where I wish it could be better that scene is the guitar scene where the acoustic guitar is smashed by one of our actor who dressed up as a clown. In this scene there is a lot of tension on the clown because we only have one guitar to smash and we need to get it right at the first time round otherwise the whole scene would be a mess. I wanted the guitar to break after two smashes but our actor found it hard to succeed and he did it in 3 smashes. Apart from those points, everything went smooth and normal as expected, and now I’m looking forward to editing as we have a lot of post-production to work on. We will have to use a lot of special effects, due to we shoot all of our sequence against green screen. 
            Overall, I think I have learned a lot from the shoot in term of team work, how to prepare for our shoot, to be more responsible and learn how to trust people in our team, which these can adapt into our real life situation. Also in term of media production I learned about, which lens to used when. for example if we want to shot wide shot we would use 35 mm.

First Session of Editing

                 Earlier today we have started our first editing session of our music video that we shot early on in the previous week. We managed to make bullet points of what we've done during 1 hour of editing.
- First to start off with we reviewed every clip that we shoot the other week, which this process took us around 20 minutes or so. We did not look into every clip in detail but instead we skim through it just to see which shot is where, in case later we need to find them then we can easily identify where they are.
- After we looked to every clip we then decided which shots to use and which shots are not, we only decide about this roughly based on the act of our actors' performances. Good performance we would put into good bin and bad performances we would put into bad bin.
- Then to make it more convenience for us in the future, we decided to label different shots inside the video to help identify which shot is in which clip for example within the clip of the guitarist we would tag the bit where he solos then we would label it "guitar solo".
- Following, we create folder of characters in the good bin. The reason for this is to help us find the clip that we want much easier next time round for example if we want a shot of the DJ wearing a horse mask we would enter good bin then DJ following by looking up for the tag that says Horse mask.
               These process took us roughly 1 hours and 20 minutes to finished, which I think it's a time well-spent as it will help us to save significant amount of time next time we come to edit.