This week Dan got out camera equipment such as the camera, tripods, and sound equipment to give us a refresher on how to utilise these things before we go off and film our Assignments! I found this very helpful as even though I did not use any of this equipment to film, as I have access to other equipment, I had forgotten a lot about how these little gadgets work. Dan also gave us a rundown of what we should include when making any visual media which was also refreshing before we got stuck into filming!

This week Ally and I filmed half of our Assignment which was the interview segment between our pop star and interviewer. We did not prepare by practicing our lines which we discovered was our biggest struggle throughout the process as we could not get through a whole take without forgetting lines! Eventually, we finally got it good enough at least to be edited together in a way that flows. Using the camera and setting up our ‘MTV’ set was so much fun. I think we really accomplished setting up the retro mood for our video, and this will be enhanced in post production with editing!

As we had hoped to get our whole shoot done this week which unfortunately didn’t happen, we have planned to film our actual music video sometime next week. Although it is a slight set back, we have prepared well and am confident that we have plenty of time to do it!