Our shoot day

The day before the shoot day I finished fitting the costumes and ironing all of them, this took a very long time as the sewing machine broke down while I was taking in the jackets and I had to get help from Loz to fix it. Also due to the material of the costumes I had to use minimum iron on them (so as not to burn them) this made taking the creases out very difficult!

Nude makeup I did on the drummer

On the day of the shoot (21^st of November) I felt confident that everything was going to go well because I had spent so much time organising all of it and had done a good shooting schedule so that we would have had time we needed to get all the shots we needed. Before we could start shooting we needed to sort out all the costumes, finish the set, and I had do the makeup of all the band members. There were many makeup changes as we needed the band members to have no makeup for the end of the video, red lipstick for the middle and full makeup at the start. We obviously started by filming them with the nude makeup (No makeup does not look good on camera as the lights make the skin look very shiny and take colour away so I needed to apply a little on so that the girls didn't look like shiny corpses) as it is easer to apply more makeup than taking it off. For the costumes we needed to decide who would wear which red accessory. The set looked exactly like what we planed very retro with a a platformed stage, a retro microphone and black and white instruments. The girls looked all extremely beautiful and elegant in their outfits. it was exactly what we wanted as we wanted the video to have a very fashionable feel to it. 

Nude makeup with red lipstick I did on the keyboard player

We divided our roles very efficiently. Liza was in charge of the playback, Genevieve was directing with Tilly and I was in charge of the costumes and makeup. This was an essential part of our music video as it is entirely based on image. It was very difficult to get the right makeup (for the full makeup) because to make a strong eye-makeup that doesn't look  slutty with the red lipstick. Also not everyone's eye shape is the same so I had t o create a different makeup look for every girl. Also Bright red lipstick does not look good on everyone so for Dayana and Anastasia's lipstick I had to mix brown and red lipstick together so as to create the perfect shade or red for them as it was essential that all the girls were wearing similar makeup or els the whole message of the video would have been messed up. I think I did a very good job at doing the girl's makeup and making sure everyone was ready on time for the shooting time.

Full makeup on the base guitarist

One of the major problems we had on the shoot day was time management. We did not realise how long it would have taken us to  get all of the band shots and we were not aware that we did not have the studio all day. However we overcome this issue by not doing our backstage scenes and only doing the photo-shoot with the band members and not the extras as without the backstage scenes it would have been confusing for the audience to have other people in the photo-shoot. We managed to get incredible footage for the photo shoot in a very short amount of time. However, we were very successful at getting all the band shots and make the girls look incredible. We got all the shots we needed of the band in all three situations (no makeup, lipstick and full makeup). It was perfect and will absolutely reflected in our theme of image in the music video.

Photo-shoot shot

We also managed our actors very well. Anastasia did not know how to play the drums but we showed her how to play them in a way that made it look that she was actually playing them but still looking very sexy. We explained to all of the girls that they had to look sexy, that they had to get into playing their instruments but at times look detached from everything so as to reflect the fact that they are not really playing them and that they are thinking "we are beautiful, we know it so it doesn't matter if we cant play because we are sexy and attractive so nobody cares". To help them achieve this we showed them the video by Robert Palmer Addicted to love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcATvu5f9vE&feature=player_embedded as he had a similar approach to the way we wanted the band members to act.
The part of the shoot I enjoyed the most was the photo-shoot as it was very energetic and fun to film. Also helping them to chose the costumes for them and sorting out the costumes so that they looked perfect on all of them was a lot of fun. I particularly enjoyed helping them choose some of the poses. I am very much looking forward to edit the band shots together as it is going to be a lot of fun to put together the shots so that they start off with full makeup and end with none. I am also very much looking forward to editing the band shots together with the photo-shoot ones. It is going to look so visually appealing and beautiful that I can't wait to see the final product.

Our set with band members

I think that our production group works very well as a team. We are good at communicating to each other and separating the tasks effectively between each other so as to get everything done onetime. The most important lesson I learned on the shoot day was that it is very important to manage time efficiently so as to avoid complications; however you can always find solutions to all your problems as we were able to find a solution to our lack of time in the studio. We are probably going to change the colour scheme of our website to red, black and white so as to fit with the colour scheme of our music video. We will also probably change the font to something more elegant so as to fit better with our star image.