Pre-Production Continued

After developing our idea and starting the pre-production, we finally got on with preparing for our shoot day. We created a call sheet – a document saying how the shoot day will be run. Our call sheet included the names, functions and telephone numbers of everyone in our team, equipment, locations, our original storyboard and the lyrics to our chosen song. Using this call sheet we had an idea of what shots we were going to shoot on the day, and the amount of time it would take to do this. The day before our shoot, we went to the studio where we were going to shoot the video and began to ready it for the next day. First we erected all the lights that we needed to use, including redheads in a 3 point lighting configuration.




Then we began to assemble our set, with help from other members of our crew. Our set comprised of some flats with painted fake brickwork, and some old construction site fencing. We also collected rubbish and spread it about the floor, to give a more urban and grimy feeling to the whole set. To complete our set, we added police tape, a chalk outline of a body on the floor and a blue light set to flash at quick intervals to represent a police light. This helped enhance the theme of our video, which was crime scenes and law enforcement. The only props that we used in our video were the bands instruments and a gun, which we set the day before to make sure we didn’t have to waste time looking for them in the morning. The cast also brought their own clothes, which we had checked before to make sure they were suitable for the image of the band we were trying to portray.