Following a break for the Australia Day holiday, we were back in class and spoilt to have Georgia Fields return to assist us once again. In preparation for our upcoming shoots with our artists, Georgia had been lovely enough to agree to come in and allow us to shoot her performing as practice.

I found the whole setup of class on this day to be a really relaxed way to re-familiarise myself with the video cameras. Despite this being the last course of my degree, I hadn’t actually been in front of a camera in over a year, but it was pleasing that everything came back to me pretty quickly. Something that I hadn’t ever done, however, was shoot something live and it was interesting to go through to setup of everything and learnt about how everything would be structure to ensure the best result.

Georgia was great, she was so patient with us and really and more than happy to roll with anything we threw at her. She brought wardrobe options, which was perhaps something we could consider with our artists if we hadn’t seen them within the space that we were shooting before. She also did an amazing job performing; you wouldn’t have known it was her time back on stage in several months. Keeping this in mind though it was useful to be forced to think more from the artist’s perspective, as the consideration of something such as nerves was something that we would all need to be aware of going into our own shoots.

I feel as though the setup of class on this day not only allowed me to find my feet again with the camera but also taught me a few new things and gave me a different perspective on how to shoot/prepare to shoot. I was able to leave confident about having to shoot with our artists the next day.

So you can put a face to the name, below you can view one of Georgia’s music videos – directed by our own fabulous teacher, Rohan!