28th November 2016
The first day of filming for our
music videos began with what should have been a warning sign from the start. I
got up at 6 in the morning to get the half 6 bus to arrive at college for
around about half 7ish, but instead got to college at around quarter past 7,
which was mildly annoying. I started waiting for everyone else in the group to
get in, but decided the best course of action would be getting breakfast, so I
trudged off to Sainsbury’s to pick up a meal deal. When I got back Andrew was
there waiting for everyone else to show up, so we sat and waited. After a while
Logan arrived and we set off to get the maintenance guys to open the green room
for us so we could get the gear we would need for the days shoot. We got in
only to find that the cameras where all gone, turns out the second years still had
them from shooting over the weekend. So we couldn’t start preparing until they
got in, because we had nothing to prepare. So we sat and waited for them to
show. By this point Amy was also here with us, she got stuck in traffic and was
held back a little. We started to set up what we could in the conference room
and waited eagerly for the guys to get back with the cameras. Amy and I were
waiting in the green room to see if they would come there first, while Andrew and
Logan were in the classroom printing paperwork needed for the shoot. After a
little while the second years arrived for their lesson, cameras in tow. After they
got there recorded footage off the SD cards we stole them back to the green
room where we began proper preparations for the days shoot. During this time a
few of the acting students had showed up and were now sat around waiting for us
to finish preparing the room for them to use. We were finally ready to begin
filming for Andrews’s music video! But the hard times had only just begun….
One of the acting students didn’t
show up until it was too late to be in the video, and didn’t bring the correct
clothing required for the scene. Andrew sent him off and we were immediately
down an actor, not a good thing. We started filming and got a few shots done
before disaster struck once again. And they say lightning never strikes twice. One
of the higher ups in the college turned up and started to knock on the door to
get our attention, only we were in the middle of filming a shot. As his
knocking turned to banging we thought it might be a good thing to see what he
wanted. We opened the door and found that the room was already booked out for
the principal, not gonna argue with that. So, once again, our plans were
scuppered. Andrew decided, as the director, that we should call it a day and
try and re-record the footage in a different room, on another day. We sent the
acting students off with a smile and decided to begin preparations for the
shooting of some scenes from Logan’s music video. We brought Dylan to the
little interview room were we had planned to record Logan’s scenes and began
re-organizing it to look right for the shoot. We had also brought some of the red-heads
from the green room to help with the lighting of the room, and it got
incredibly hot in there very quickly. We finished filming the scenes that only
had Dylan in them, during which time Beatrice turned up and was ready for her
scenes. We rearranged the room to suit our needs and got recording the next
scenes. After this we sent Beatrice off to get her clown makeup done and sat
around waiting for her to get back. After a rather long time waiting Amy
messaged her to find she hadn’t even gone to makeup, so Amy and Andrew went off
to ‘escort’ her to makeup to make sure she made it there. Eventually she got
back with her clown makeup fully done and we began work on the next scenes that
had her in. once we finished these scenes we were finished with the acting
students so we sent them home, thanking them for their time as they left.
Once we had finished tidying up
the green room and all other rooms used, we took the SD card out of the camera and
headed for our classroom to retrieve the footage. And this is where the
lightning strikes a third time. Since Logan had the SD card he was the first of
us to begin taking the footage off the camera. Andrew decide that it was a good
idea to just scrap the footage we took from the morning shoot in the conference
room, as we were going to need to do it all again anyway. Logan began to delete
the footage from the SD card when Kelly told the whole class that all members
of a group needed all recorded footage, regardless of whose video it was for. Fortunately
Logan had only deleted it from the SD card and not from his hard drive so we
were in the clear, only when he went to go to his hard drive to get the footage
and transfer it to us, it was gone. It was gone from the SD card and his hard drive;
this day couldn’t go any worse. After a brief talk with someone from the IT
department of the college we deduced that it would be best if we gave the SD card
to a technician to see if they could drag the deleted footage back from the
aether or wherever it was. The next morning Logan and Andrew where already in
before I got in. They were in the LRC trying desperately to get the footage on
the SD card to work. But it was too little too late, it was corrupt, and there’s
no saving that. It was a terrible shame that this footage was lost, as it was
some really good stuff. But its ok, every failure or mistake is a learning
experience. It might have been a wasted day, but we will learn from this day
and use this knowledge in the future.
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