Construction Post 1: Music Video Production Part 1

We had six days to shoot all of the footage we needed. The main focus of the first three days was to get the individual shots for Shayam, Mario and Eddie, who played the main characters. We would also be able to get more artistic shots if there were actors that were unavailable for certain slots.

Day 1 - 15th November

The call time for the first day was 9 a.m. and we were to start shooting at 11 a.m. The reason we arrived so much earlier than the shoot time was so that the actors could get into their costumes, to prepare the set and also give the technician time to set up the greenscreen for us. The first shoot day went very well and we were able to work very efficiently, because of this we had more time than we anticipated to film additional shots, which meant that we would have a lot of shots to choose from when it came to editing.

Day 2 - 16th November

On this day, we decided to shoot the shots for the red, 'Mars' scene. The shoot went well and we didn't encounter many problems. One issue that came up was when Shayam had to place down a flag. We used a mop as a guide for the flag pole, which we would then later remove in post-production. At first, we noticed that when she was holding the mop at an angle when placing it, so we got Mario to hold it upright.

Day 3 - 17th November

We chose to use this day to get footage that we had missed or needed to re-shoot. One of the things we decided to re-shoot were some of the shots with Shayam from day 1. This is because while reviewing the footage, we noticed that there was an error in the costumes - she bare foot in these shots, so we filmed these shots again with her wearing socks. We felt this was something that we should have fixed to avoid continuity errors in the final video.

The costume error was fixed