Professional Practice: Cupeno Shoot

Our second Shoot was suppose to be followed after an interview with the designer of a new brand of clothing/music producer who was wanting to gain some form of mainstream media/attention for his brand. We had to pass on the interview as the designer did not turn up to the shoot & instead used our time to do a further recce of the Cupeno's cafe to gain further insight for the production team on what is achievable with the video.

The idea is to promote the cafe itself & the video was based around showing the cafe in its natural state & fill in the buzzing atmosphere with extras as we were allocated to shoot after hours. Once we had an idea of what we were going to do we had lunch and came back at the set time for the shoot & began to set up the equipment. As we set up i awaited the extras i had gathered in two days notice of the shoot in which half of them turned up. In that case we had to improvise with others on set. We had all the machines turned off for Shaun to collect the greater sound we needed. We then gathered as much footage as possible in our small time of filming. We presented ourselves in a professional manor & made sure the extras were catered for. It was not a hard shoot other than the alarming amount of time we had to gather what we needed, i thought it may have been a good idea to go back and schedule a follow up shoot and will be going forward with Mohammad to set that in motion.