Prelim Question 2: What did you learn from participating in the workshop?

From participating in the workshop I learnt that music video shoots are very stressful and are also very tiring, as there are lots of run throughs in a shot period of time. You have to make sure you cover everything, so you need to do lots of takes from different angles. You also have to make sure you shoot every lyric from the song from different angles more than once.

One of the numerous run-through on stage

However, you need to schedule the entire day and also allow time for any alterations to the camera or the setup. During the workshop on Friday, we took longer over shots than we had first planned, so alterations needed to be made so that the schedule could still be met.

Our schedule for the day's filming

I also learnt about different technology you can use on set to make filming a professional music video easier. On set we used a Jib (pictured at the top) which helped us to get the smooth panning shots. We also used a high quality monitor which enabled the director and the rest of the crew to see how the shot would look in the final music video. We also used a track and a dolly in our shoot, which gave us smooth tracking shots. I learnt on shoot that you must be careful when using the jib on a track, as the camera can become unstable and fall off of the dolly itself

You need to be careful when using the jib on the dolly

Thanks to the monitors it was easy to picture how the shots
would look in the final video