Group - Brighton Stills

Brighton Stills

 

Positives

• We got a large variety of shots with ranging locations and aspects of our photos. This means that when it comes to the print campaign and style and concept of our actual video we have a choice of which path we want to take it down.
• Our photos are all outside which clearly shows how our concept was largely focused on the 'naturalistic' element of Brighton, and that we had an idea of our final outcome.
• We also got a mixture of angles and distances, with our stills ranging from landscape scenery to extreme close-ups of faces. This means we have a variety of options when it comes to editing and thinking about with still represents our concept the best.
• We paid close attention to composition and use of colour, clearly depicted in our photos on the first slide of the seating area with the striking red colour.
• In particular we made especially good use of long-shots, which strongly supports our conceptual idea of emphasising naturalism through our portrayal of Brighton.
• We made good use of the citizens of Brighton in our shots, for example the man with the metal detector. This allowed us to experiment with which angles were appropriate and gave us room to explore the use of different footage in the music video.

Negatives

• All of our photos were of exterior locations, which limited our possible concept ideas for the video we were to make. Also, it didn't allow us to explore how our production idea would have looked inside.
• Many of our stills weren't taken using the tripod, although this gave us greater freedom for angles and heights, it did also mean that not all of our stills were framed as precisely as they could have been.
• We could have planned the shots more extensively because improvising shots was less time effective and harder to organise. This also meant that our narrative lacked a cohesive and flowing conceptual theme.