Reflections: Reshooting the Performance Sequence

Aftre viewing our footage from our first two days of filming, we realised that there were a few problems. The narrative sequence was completely fine, but the performance was not. We shot both sequences in the same garage, but this proved problematic. We loved the whole construction site look for the narrative, but we decided that it didn't look good for a performance. As a convention, most performance sequences of music videos are shot in studios with lights, making the artists look like professional perfect popstars. The shots in the garage didn't look right, especially with the corrugated iron ceiling above. So after much discussion, we decided to reshoot in our school's Seward Studio.

To put it bluntly, our second shoot didn't go smoothly at the beginning at all. With broken floodlights, missing bass guitars and mic stands, it was pretty chaotic. However, after running around school scouting all of the correct equipment, we got onto our second shoot of our performance aspect of our video.
As we had the performance experience from our previous shoot, we already knew how large and over-the-top we had to act, therefore cutting the amount of time and tape wasted on bad takes. As we also knew which kind of shots we liked after seeing our footage from the first day, this also meant that we knew exactly how to direct our camera operator too. As we were in the studio and there was a trolley, this also allowed us to film a 'trolley pan', where the camera operator was pushed back and forth while filming.

Overall, after the horrible start, it was a great second shoot, and now after looking at the footage, it was very essential to our project. Comparing to our footage from the first day which seemed okay after viewing, it was actually much better, meaning that our decision to reshoot was a right one.