H.C. Personal reflection on London shoot

My role on the London shoot was camera and direction. I achieved success in the following ways;

• Following a plan of shots we created in our animatic.
• Experimenting with different camera angles, heights, shot sizes and distances.
• Trying where possible to adhere to the rule of thirds to create visual interesting and impressive shots. 
• Shooting a wide variety of the content of our locations to portray vibrance and represent culture, as well as Jack and Tom interacting witht these features to try and show positive youth culture. 
• Collecting a high number of relevant shots to give us a range of material to use in editing.

There were some difficulties and challenges in the day which may hinder our production;

• On the day, lighting conditions were not ideal to match the summer vibe of our song as some cloud cover is evident adn dulls the shots. We are aiming to correct this using colour grading in after effects in the editing phase. 
• We also had available the school's higher frame rate (50fps) camera, which in the end we did not use. I took the decision not to use it because of the fact that we had not planned shots in our London locations to use it, meaning to come up with these would have eaten into our time schedule, possibly jeopardising our completion of the shoot.

On the whole, I feel the shoot was positive and it has given me a creative boost to take forwards into the editing phase.