In this production there was a lot of complications, to
begin with there was a group decision on what role we would like to do in the
production which was:
Aaron McDonald – Producer
Terry Garland – Director
Brendan Strong – Camera and sound
Ryan Forgoine – Camera
Ryan O’Neill – Camera and sound
I feel that the producer didn’t really do the job right he
wasn’t achieving his role to a
professional standard as he wasn’t showing up to meetings, I myself was the
only one who was in constant contact with the client. The producer asked me
detailed plans of the shoot but by doing this I feel that I could of done a
better a job as producer as I done everything from booking equipment to
organising the actual night of the shoot. If I did go for the roll of producer
I would of changed the groups rolls because due the multi camera shoot everyone
had to be on camera but this should have been a secondary roll as we could of
got a lot done if we had a primary roll for each member and there second roll
as the camera.
During the pre-production there wasn’t much communication
with in the group. If the group had of allocated time to do a recce we would of
solved a lot of problems for example, our driver camera man number 2 Ryan
Forgoine insisted that he knew where Ballyclare was we were in the opposite
direction heading toward Bangor when some of the crew looked it up on their
phone and we realised that we were in the wrong direction. After turning and
heading back to Belfast we were in the right direction but we were an hour late
to the shoot. As well as being an hour late it was our first time seeing the bar,
we only had seen a small diagram the client drew on a bit of paper for us.
Again we wasted more time at the beginning of shoot discussing were to set the
cameras but luckily the band were still doing sound checks when we arrived but
all of these problems would have been avoided if we had of organised a recce.
After shooting the gig for two and a half hours the thing I
would changed most would’ve been getting
a proper set list of the songs and what order they would have been sung in. We
had to recorded four specific songs out of twenty four I think it was a waste
of time recording the whole set as we only needed four songs this was a poor
lack of communication between the client and us, if we had of had a proper set
list it would have been less stressful and it would have been less hassle for
the editor.
After doing this client brief I believe that I have; learnt a
lot and have took a lot from this. I will be able in future projects to produce
and mange things more.
