A2 Preliminary Evaluation - Production

During the production of our music video, it was the director's job to organize what equipment was needed each day and who was to bring what to each lesson. The director would decide which parts of the video would be filmed when, and frequently referred back to the storyboard in order to make the filming run as smoothly as possible. Actors would be placed in the correct positions for each shot, lighting and sound would be chosen to fit the shot, and the cameraman would be informed as to what camera angle and shot type was best suited to which part. On one occasion, we asked a technician to help with setting up the lighting and sound so we knew how to use the equipment later ourselves. Some days were unorganized and people were off sick which caused problems either because we couldn't film certain parts of the video or because certain props were not available to use. To get around this, we shot which parts we could but sometimes had to stop and evaluate our situation so as to reorganize ourselves. Roles changed during the production stages due to poor decisions made in pre-production, which meant that time was wasted and certain aspects of our video did not look as professional as others and could not be re-shot in order to improve the quality of our filming.