Performance shoot issues/Feedback

Some of our shoots were double booked, so we had to re-book or work around this. This meant that we had less time than we had originally though, so we had to work quickly. From previous performance shoots, we'd received the feedback:

• Lots of camera movement - good
• Improved performance from all 3 performers
• Better group dynamics
• Good lip-sync

We often experimented with handheld, and the result was shaky footage which we ended up using as it looked very conventional for music videos, especially of the rock genre, which often has very shaky fast-paced footage and editing.

Some of the targets we received were:

• More CU shot types (both faces and instruments)
• Too much distance between characters
• Lighting too dark at times
• Characters not lit properly (or dark faces)

In the end, we took all this into account for further shoots, and most of the final edit footage is from these later shoots.