The studio session...

On Wednesday me and the group along with our friend who had agreed to co-star in the music video walked down to the photo studio. We got in and started all getting our equipment set up. We had to bring a number of things with us on that day like a tripod, camera and a guitar. the guitar was vital for the type of genre that we were doing as when researching into many similar artist they were all of an acoustic/indie rock genre and they were all usually seen with a guitar in their videos. We felt that this was an important convention to portrait and this was why we felt the guitar was so vital in our music video.

When we got to the studio we realised that the tripods that we had brought was actually broken. we had to asked the studio if they had one that we could use but they didn't and so we had to just make the best of the situation and film without a tripod.

Another piece of equipment we had in the filming was two chairs, one black one and one white one. This was in our original plan and story board to have chairs in the studio. Fortunately we didn't have to bring this to the studio as my friends had told me that the studio has a black and a white cushioned chair that we could use and so this is was what we did.

Generally i felt the session in the studio went very well although there were some down parts. Realising that the tripod had broken and not having any other subsidiary was something that we regretted. We found it hard to continue as we needed the tripod for stability. this was a really valuable experience as we learnt to be prepared for every scene we shoot. i felt that the preparation for the studio wasn't as good as it could have been. A lot of the equipment was gathered just a couple of minutes before we left to go to the studio. Though we had already thought through were the equipment was going to be and were we would collect them from we should have gathered all the equipment the day before and stored it all in one place. This would have saved us a lot of time on the day and given us the time to check the equipment and make any replacements needed.  This was a valuable lesson learnt and has resulted in us hopefully planning and preparing our shots with a lot more care.