CK: Brighton - Reflection

• I would say that overall we used our time spent in Brighton very well
• Although we were not planning on using Brighton as one of our locations for the final production, it was extremely useful to practice many of the techniques that will be necessary in our final production.
• Firstly, we were able to use the track and dolly very effectively, and we found that shots involving camera movement were much more effective that shots in which we used the tripod, which will be useful in our final production
• Also, we were able to try our hand at some lip syncing, which turned out to be a lot harder than we first anticipated. Our problem was that the performer in our video wasn't belting it out enough, therefore it was blatantly obvious that he wasn't actually singing. For our final production we will have to make sure that we are putting 100% effort into our lip syncing.
• As well as this, it was useful to practice the timing of the cuts in post production. We found that it was extremely effective to make cuts on the beat of the song, which was quite difficult in places as we hadn't thought about this in the filming process. This means that when we next film we will be able to bear this in mind and plan ahead during filming.
• It was also interesting to experiment with colour grading in post production, as we were aiming to give a folky/ vintage look to our piece, however we found that this was extremely difficult, if not impossible using the software which we usually use to edit our production. Therefore we asked our media technician for advice and he suggested a different piece of software, which will be extremely useful in our final production.