Workshop Day-Teenage Dirtbag

1. What do you think you learnt from Friday's workshop? It could be specific things about making a music video OR general things about the production process.

Friday's workshop provided insight into how a music video would work and how to shoot it, and how the day would run-but still was a lot of fun! It's very important that everything runs smoothly in order to get everything filmed in time. So punctuality is very important and you must be on you best behaviour. Also it taught me to just get on with it even if you don't want to (which often often waiting around for an hour or two you didn't really want to...) Organisation before hand is key as this shoot emphasised. Actors, props and locations all had to be sorted out and booked in advance so that on the day there was no fuss of confusion. Location in this instant could have been potentially problematic what with filming in a school, and lots of people needing to get past at 40 minute intervals. However because we had arranged it with heads of departments we were able to seal off a small section of the school and so were left relatively undisturbed. I also learnt to improvise when in difficult situations. For example a wheelchair was used to weave in and out of the band as we did not have enough curved track, so I guess you can say the shoot has taught me how to be creative, as well as with how i used the camera (e.g. with different filters or gels, or varying the angle.)

2. For you, what was the best bit?

Sitting in the green room watching the monitor. It made the whole experience seem so professional and meant that even while you weren't doing anything you could still be involved giving feedback (it also meant you didn't have to wait until you'd uploaded it to see some actual footage). Also with Jake giving constant feedback, watching the footage helped you understand why each shot was wrong or why he needed to re-take.

3. How do you think the work we have done will impact on your group project?

It will probably have the biggest effect on our organisation skills because knowing how hectic that day was WITH all the planning we'd be foolish, suicidal almost, to go into such a drastic thing unprepared....

CAN'T WAIT :D