Filming on location

I enjoyed filming on location however I was ultimately shocked at the amount of issues we might experience while trying to film in very public places. This has lead me to believe that a lot of planning is required and also if we venture far to film we should have a whole day scheduled in order to make allowances for technical issues, as well as allowing us to take enough shots so we will eventually get the perfect one. For this practice we only had one afternoon so I believe some takes weren't  filmed or acted to the best of our capability. However this experience has been very informative for the future project.

 I like the background that we have chosen for this shot as it is very picturesque. However, as I was previously discussing I don't think enough planning went into this shot as the clothing of the actor in green does not stand out against the almost entirely green background. We also had to zoom in for this in order to see facial expression more clearly. I think in the future that this should be avoided because we lost some quality of the image and also the top of one of the actors heads has been excluded from the shot.

 I think that everyone is well framed in this shot by the bridge and that although there is space to the right it is acceptable because the river adds a depth and interest to the shot. However the light background makes the actors look dark, so I think some non natural lighting should have been used here to illuminate the faces.

 I don't like the location of this shot as the background consists of too much empty and plain space. A more built up area may have made for a more interesting composition. Also when the actors move into a line the camera quickly pans over to them I think this looks slightly unplanned and should have been a new shot.

I like this shot as the background is very picturesque. However we did experience some technical issues which meant that the speaker playing the music failed to work so that actor had to sing a long to a phone which possibly reduced her confidence in her performance.

I also liked this shot to end the video. The composition of the actors was very interesting and the dance choreography allowed us to experience creating a performance based music video.