BEATOPHONE SHOOTDAY

EVALUATIONBy Chris Himathongkom

PRIOR OF SHOOT DAY Unfortunately, we were unable to set up our set fully on the day prior to our shoot due to the group that was shooting on that day being further on their schedule. This was a problem as it means we have less time on the actual shooting day to set-up. Me and Nanci had the chance to talk to the set designers on how we want the set to look like, as well as how wide and deep we want it. Also, I have been notified that our pianist had become sick and had to go home. This was a big problem considering we were gonna start shooting in less than 16 hours. I managed to contact another pianist and convinced him to be the replacement which was really essential considering we nearly cut down the pianist altogether due to the problem.

FEELING ON SHOOT DAY AND PREPARATIONI woke up feeling pretty excited about the shoot as I worked

really hard producing the shot lists and storyboard for the music video- i couldn't wait to see what it would look like on the screen.

On the morning of the shooting day, we started setting up the 1920s

set which we couldn't set the day before. We got our dancers ready with make-up and rehearsals. I went to the theatre department to find the chairs for the musicians which fits the 1920s theme. I also found and moved the piano to the stage for the jazz band performance element.

STUDIO- MY ROLES The studio looked exactly like how we wanted it, althogh , me, personally wanted the whole set up to be much bigger in order to make it look like an actual concert. However, the set that the set designers came up with looks just fine.

On the shoot day, I took over the role of cameraman, director, art director and producer. During both the 1920s and futuristic element, I was in charge of the camera with Luke assisting me. Me and Nanci divided the role of director as we were instructing the dancers and musicians on what to do, how to look on the screen. I was an art director during the science lab element as I was the one to make sure every continuity was not interrupted- including emptying out all the test tubes from shot to shot, making sure the liquid inside the tubes stays the same in each shot. I was the producer in terms of making sure everything was going on schedule. I had the shooting schedules and call list which makes me in charge of when to shoot each element. I was also the lighting desk at one point where I told George (our lighting specialist) how I want the first opening shot to be- how I wanted sudden lights at the beginning.

THINGS THAT WENT WELL & THINGS THAT DIDN'T GO SO WELL

I feel that I personally did well on the directing and art directing as I was the person making sure all the chemicals the scientist are mixing still has continuity- emptying all the tubes after it was mixed.

We had problems about the set as we only had 4 white background sheets. We encountered this by instead of making the set like a rectangular room, me and Nanci decided to use the side sheets facing 45degrees outwards which gives the set wider room to work with as well as giving the impression of the room being bigger. Another problem was that we ran over the schedule by over an hour. I encountered this by volunteering to set up the shipping container while all the set designers set up the futuristic scene- this allows more time to be shot as we divided the task through division of labour. Also, one of our group member was actually inside the music video. This was a problem because it means there is more task to be done by me and Nanci, making us work much slower that we should be. Finally our mad scientist doesn't know how to lip-sync. This was a major problem as the footage doesn't look good on the screen which could make our whole music video look very amateur.

MOST SUCCESSFUL AND LEAST SUCCESSFUL PARTS

The most successful part of the shooting day was the 1920s jazz club as the dancers were most in-synced while the set also looked incredible. We also managed to get many sorts of shots, over 50 shots alone inside the 1920s set which we could use in editing stage.

I wish that Mike would have learn the lyrics better and lip-sync better. Also I wished that we didn't have to go over time as I got back to house at 9pm while all the other group members went back at 6pm because I helped clearing up the shipping container.

TALENTS AND MOST ENJOYABLE MOMENTSI managed the talents pretty well as when Mike couldn't lip-

sync or act the shot we wanted, I was encouraging him and telling him exactly what to do in order to make the shots work.

I enjoyed shooting the 1920s jazz club scene the most as we experimented many kinds of shots, making it much more experiential for me as the camera man. We also used a tracking track to track the shots of the dancers in this scene.

EDITING AND TEAMWORKI’m looking forward to editing the mad scientist as we had

many cool shots of him mixing chemicals, fiddling with all the science equipments and machines which would look quite cool in the music video.

I feel that our production team could work better as the shooting day, me and Nanci had to takeover all the roles while shooting. But I believe that Evelyn will be more useful to the group in the editing stage as she’s in Hurtwood Film Academy.

WHAT TO DO IN THE NEXT SHOOTI learned that we need to set up all the props and sets prior to

the day of the shoot as it takes a lot of time to set up everything. Also, if we’re going to have a changeover of set in the future, we need to give it at least an hour to build the new sets, new costumes and make-up as it takes quite a long time to do so.