The Bike Shoot

So on Friday it was time for the filming of the bike video and i also helped Ashley with the vox pox later on that day. Everything was ready for the filming of the bike as we had risk assessment done, recce done it was just up to our team to make sure that we made the most of filming.

I made sure the team met at half eight. This was to run though one last plan and that everyone knew what we would be doing on the day of the shoot. The team for the bike video was myself on camera Max who would be the cyclist one of the reasons we wanted him to wear vintage clothes is because we wanted the audience to think it is Paul riding the bike when he was younger. Zac who would also be filming and Charlie and Louis who would be keeping an eye on the equipment and blocking anyone from getting in the way of the shots.It also gave us the chance to make sure everything with the bike would be ok.

So the shoot got off to a bit of a shaky start when Louis go pro battery broke but lucky he had a back up plan.  The second set back we had was that the time we was filming out was pretty dark which effected the lighting but the reason we went out that early was to make sure that we got shots without members of the public getting in the way. I had checked the weather forecast and it had predicted this weather.  But we could sort this kind of thing out in the editing stage but once we got into the filming we the sun did come out which helped us. A few off the shots got ruined by people walking infront of the camera or looking directly into it so a few of the takes took us about four shots to do. A lot of the shots used where low angle this is because wanted the focus of the video to be the bike and the clothes that Max was wearing. and i thought while filming the town hall to get a long shot and have max cycle though the people and it turned out to be a decent shot in the end. Then obviously the go pro shots will be for the first person view shots.

We also had problems filming outside the Paul Smith store due to the staff not wanting any footage to go on social media sites. But we managed to get all the shots needed by around 12:30. We put the footage onto Charlies and Zacs computer and both we going to make an edit on Premier Pro.

I will write up about all three videos and the outcome of our presentation after Thursday. This way i can write about how successful the work we have done will be. It will also give me a chance to reflect on things. But before this it is our final week coming up and this means it is time to write my speech.

Below is a couple of images of us guys on set of the shoot.