Preliminary studies - shooting

For the day our shooting the preliminary studies, we needed to be organised as we had limited time and we had to organise alot. We came prepared as we had our music and costumes and the props ready. We spent the first part of the morning teaching the other dancers the dance so that they were able to shoot. Unfortunatly as we had to share the camera out it meant that we were allocated a time slot. But as the other groups took longer with the camera we had to improvise by not having the camcorder. We used a regular camera to record on as that is what was avaliable to us at the time. This is going to help us for when we shoot our overall movie because we will be able to plan our timing better and we will aim to have th camera first and not worry. We will plan with the other groups about timing and having the camera at different times to make it fair. We forgot about the problem that the camera can't shoot vertically, so we had to reshoot that shot which was time consuming.
We used our shot by shot list to make sure that we had every shot for us and the mood boards helped us to be specific and see exactly what was in the shot. The shooting was easy and went smoothly. We didn't encounter many problems, but we changed the setting and the angle which the camera was at because the lighting wasn't right. But we had a back up plan incase the setting didn't go well which went very smoothly. We established that lightning was going to be a problem which means that we will have to plan batter when we finish shooting.