This was our second attempt at filming the party section of the video. We addressed the issues that occurred at the other party before going to this one, to ensure we would not come across another stumbling block. We attached a light to the GoPro camera, this meant that there would be no chance that the footage would come out too dark. Initially i was skeptical to have such a bright light shining on people at the party as I felt it would lose its authenticity, however after watching some clips of the film 'Project X' (which inspired us to film a similar party scene) it became apparent that there is a bright light shone in most of the close up shots while still looking effective.
As the camera is only small and handheld, we took turns walking around the party filming the action. At first we thought that we would just be able to film the people dancing and we would not have to intervene, however we did not get the kind of shots we were looking for. Most the time people were just socialising rather than dancing for the camera. We should have anticipated this as most people would shy away.
We decided to take a different approach by asking people to do specific actions and pay more attention to the camera. After this, we began to get much better footage. We did not plan most of the shots we used in the final edit, and this actually worked in our favour as the footage felt very authentic.
After we got some good closeups of people dancing for the camera, we filmed the shots that we had planned before. These were all very easy to capture as they were simple shots. One was of the DJ spinning his decks that we plan to repeat several times in the video; another was a very closeup shot of a pair of head phones. These shots were chosen to keep within the conventions of a house music video. We filmed another shot of a party goer drinking a shot for when the music drops, and the final shot was a point of view shot of someone leaving the party via the back door.
All in all this was highly successful as we were able to make it so by learning from our previous mistakes.
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