Filming Schedule - Miss Georgiou

Filming Schedule - Miss Georgiou

Creating an efficient filming schedule was an incredibly important job that required all group members to converge in order to finish the agenda; there are many reasons as to why it is so significant to the quality of the music video we are creating. Firstly with the use of the storyboard we created previously we had an outline to determine what resources would be needed within each day of filming, for example on the first day of filming the two main characters within the music video (Jazz Chrystie and Robyn Tansley) both needed 3 different changes of clothes, and for the female actress a change of make-up. Two changes of clothing were needed for flashback scenes and one for shooting in the present time, whereas the second and third days of filming we only required one change of clothing, and only the male actor needed to be present as we had filmed the parts the female actress was needed on the first day. The effectiveness of this is that we don’t waste time the time and effort of group members and ensure that only the necessary equipment, actors, iconography and other elements of filming are present at their needed times. The filming schedule also removes the prospect of ambiguity, as there are clear subsections for each aspect of the filming of the music video within the schedule meaning each group member will know clearly what day we were filming, where to meet and at what time, as all the information is there. Filming schedules are also beneficial to the group as it means no time is wasted and can also aid the filming process in terms of creativity, although both the contents of the storyboard and the filming schedule will be manipulated when it comes to actually filming due to new ideas arising or certain circumstances, the shooting schedule provides an outline for the content within each shot, and how long we should be spending on each shot, this means that we can spend as little time on each shot as possible as time is incredibly valuable and can be put to better use such as planning the editing and other pieces of cinematography. If a filming schedule is done carelessly and without any effort then there can be chaos, especially within our group as we were incredibly ambitious with the diversity of camera shots and editing styles within our music video we needed to be well organised. A bad filming plan would result in filming over schedule which could not be done at all costs within our group as we relied on the weather staying the same within all our shots filmed over three different days and could also result in members not bringing the right pieces of equipment as within certain shots we used more than just the tri-pod and camera as we had our own handheld tri-pod for a reverse handleld shot, this was vital for our filming and without the filming schedule the group member in charge may have forget it. Below is our filming schedule we used to efficiently film our music video wasting no time or effort.