Group: Brighton Reccie footage and evaluation

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Strengths: We found composing the order of the clips to be least challenging, as albeit there was no real story to the shots we composed, we were able to make some sense of them and order them accordinly. Our actual filming of the shots was also something we excelled in, as we were able to identify the angle and distance appropriate for the shot and then carry it out effectively.

Weaknesses: At times during the reccie we struggled to think of possible shots to compose. I feel this was largely down to the fact our original idea would not include any footage in the environment we were in, so we found it difficult to relate anything to our ideas. We also found it difficult to create any sort of story to our shots, and ended up just filming a collection of different types of shots, albeit this was helpful as we explored what variations of shots were effected, we still found there was no correlation between shots.


Evaluation:

• We went to Brighton relatively unsure on what we were going to carry out on the reccie as at the time our idea had no relevance to the destination. On our way there, we concluded we would attempt to maximise the learning we could get out of the trip and agreed we would simply try out a variety of different shots and see how they worked out and if they were effective.

• As a result of this mindset, we achieved the knowledge of which shots most conformed to the genre of our chosen track. As previously said, the location had no relevance to our track, however we gained the knowledge of which angles, distances and movements of shots would be the most effective for our track.

• We learnt from this reccie that randomly selecting shot types is an ineffective way to produce a music video. Mise-en-scene is not enough to conform to a genre, but shot angle, distance and movement has a large role in constructing an image and a concept and therefore we discovered that shot selection would be a key part of our project.