Reflection on the test shoot

 Overall the test shoot went well, we have got important shots but because we only had 1 hour in total to do the test shoot we did not get all the shots we want. Also, we chose a time where our casts just finished their activities and some of them came late. We need to find a time where everyone can be on time, because we need everyone in order to shoot the video. From this test shoot it reflects that we are not organized enough and we don't have same pictures in our heads.  As a production group we really need to more organized,  such as where are we going to book the place for the rehearsal and for the intro where is George going to stand. The difficulty in our music video is that the casts don't look into the camera when we are filming non-VCR section. I think we should list out all the actions for the casts so this will be easier for the casts and us. 

During VCR section, our lead singer mostly interacted with the guitar player and bass as they just stand next to them so when we edit the video we found out that we don't have many shots for the drummer. This is another reason I think we should direct their actions. List out the actions can make sure everyone have same amount of shots and as a production group we know how we want the video to look like so it is easier just to tell them what to do, if we don't direct them they will stuck on ideas. 

Time management is one thing that we didn't do well, which reflects onto the test shoot. We had 1 hour and we used most of the time filmed the main performance but it left us having 10 minutes to shoot VCR. Even that we didn't have enough shots. I think as a production group we need to arrange a longer time with our casts that everyone is willing to do rehearsal and we organized our a time table. The time table is for us to know how many time we have for performance and how many time for VCR. During our rehearsal because our drummer came late for football so we did nothing but just asking the others to practice. For that time we should just let three of the others do the VCR sections and when he comes we start filming the performance and in the end where we had 10 minutes we could have just focused on the dummer for VCR. On the shoot day we don't have time to think about what we should do next or wait for people, so as a production group we really need to be more organized and direct. We need to communicate as a group and come up with a plan, and arrange more rehearsals. The more we do before the shoot the easier and better we will get during the shoot day.