Group: Brighton Recce

Where did you go and what were your aims?

• We went to Brighton and went to the pier and surrounding areas, such as the lanes and the sea front. We had to go to 2 exterior locations and 2 suitable interior location with permission.
• Our aims were to get the following shots:

1. Mid-long shot of a panning establishing shot for narrative/performance.
2. Use of high/low angle for performance.
3. Footage of sped up shot of someone in a crowd.
4. Point of view handicam shot.
5. 360 panning shot.
6. Tracking shot with character performer in first person mode of address.
7. A variety of close-ups.
8. Slow motion shot.
9. Focus on/off, close-up, pull focus.

What did you achieve?

• CC: I now know what to film to make a music video look good and I got a lot more footage than I got doing my AS film opening sequence. This means that when we come to edit our footage, if some shots look bad, then we have an alternative and have more ideas to put into the music video.
• LB: From the recce I was involved more in the filming process then last year. I took alot out of this trip as I am more confortable with different shots and techniques that we tried. I personally like the timelapse shots we attempted and would like the idea of trying to do this in our final video.
• JP: In this recce, I did less actual filming of shots and was more involved in  planning the shots. From this I was able to see different aspects of filming and think about things like how a time lapse shot would work and which locations would work

What problems did you have?

• The weather was a problem because it was cloudy, however we wanted it to be sunny as this would amplify the mood we were trying to make.
• Another problem we faced was the fact that we could not film in some shops. This did not help because we needed certain shots fufill our aims of the trip.
• We faced creativity issues due to the lack of time we had to prepare for this, so we just filmed random things due to the time restraints of the trip.

What did you learn that you can take to the next shoot?

• We learnt that we need to plan our shots more effectively as we found that we were roaming around Brighton looking for shots, however a better method of doing this is following our call sheet exactly so we know where and what to film.

Liam & Joey on Brighton Pier