When filming, we found that once we started the filming, our initial roles naturally changed and the team did what they felt comfortable doing, however in a big group, it is easier for some members to take on more responsibilities so it was difficult to make sure everyone participated sufficiently. We decided that half the group would do the filming and half would do the editing however we found more help was needed with the editing rather than the filming.
Since the music video we were reconstructing was set in a
wood, we planned to film at Beverley Westwood where the setting was perfect and
could capture the feel of the video. We found a time when most of the filming
crew were available which was in the evening – we thought this was a good idea
but that evening it poured down with rain so we were unable to do any shooting.
We were just one week from the deadline with no filming and we knew we needed
time for editing so we decided to use the trees at the bottom of our college
field, however it was a bright sunny day, which was inconvenient for the
setting we wanted – we thought we could resolve this issue in editing.
Due to members of the group not turning up at the times
we had arranged, the editing fell to Olivia, Amy, Natasha and I. When we started
editing, we found the original editing team had spent an hour on about 5
seconds of the film which was too slow and out of time so unfortunately we had
to start the task again. The group had not taken into account when planning the
task that certain members were at University open days, and one member went on
holiday which the rest of the team were unaware of.
The initial problem was having too many people working on
one task because it is easy for people to sit back and let other members of the
group do all the work, even if it was not planned that way.
From this experience I have learned to make sure there is enough time for editing because, if the video is properly planned, the filming will not take long at all.
