Shoot Reflections (Friday 14th Nov)

This was a relative short shoot (15:45-17:45). We had the studio from 13:45, but me and Gavin had lessons until 15:45. Therefore, we didn't plan many shots in this shoot - we planned to get most of the confetti shots out of the way, as we had asked 8 people to come in to throw confetti over the band whilst we performed.

We got the helpers to stand on chairs, 4 on each side of the band so that they were out of shot and to throw confetti over us. However, we found that the confetti wouldn't travel far enough to cover the whole screen. To fix this, we got a fan on either side of the frame to help blow the confetti into the middle of the frame, which worked very effectively.

the confetti didn't reach the middle of the frame

using fans, the confetti filled the frame

We had created our own confetti out of lots of pieces of tissue paper, which proved to work very effectively apart from the occasional clump of confetti. We had also bought 4 confetti cannons which we used at crucial points in the song where we knew we would be using that particular part of footage in the final video. Luckily, the DIY confetti and the confetti cannons blended very well and didn't look different.

We just about got every shot finished, although it took a long time between takes as we had to clear up all the confetti. The picture below shows the extent of how far the confetti travelled on the set.